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08-06-2013, 06:34 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sequim, WA, Washington
Trailer: 2013 19'
Posts: 134
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Taking the plunge
My wife and I just placed an order for a 19B with November delivery date. I will be retiring in a little over a year and we are totally new to trailers/camping/RVing. Looking forward to a new adventure. We are Ron & Sharon
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08-06-2013, 06:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Welcome, Ron & Sharon, to our little world. I hope one day to make it to Sequim, the Florida of the wet northwest!!
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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08-06-2013, 03:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Marysville, Washington
Trailer: 2022 Coachmen Nova 20C
Posts: 652
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Hi Ron & Sharon,
Good choice & welcome to the Escape gang.
There's a gathering just south of Portland at Champoeg SP next April. Perhaps you'd like to join us there.
Congatulations.
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Paul & Norma
2013 Escape 21 & 2014 Chevy Silverado - sold
2022 Coachmen Nova 20C
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08-06-2013, 03:55 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Trailer: none
Posts: 737
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Congrats! You have made a good choice and will get plenty of help from the forum to enjoy your new Escape!
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Fran & Dave Albuquerque, NM
2013 to 2022 had a 2008 Escape 5.0 Classic
2011 Frontier Crew Cab Short Bed Pro4x
Sold both 7/22
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08-06-2013, 03:55 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,683
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Congrats on your new trailer. Lots of fun ahead. 
Just curious, where is Sequim?
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2017 Escape 5.0 TA
2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
2009 Escape 19 (previous)
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
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10-14-2013, 07:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sequim, WA, Washington
Trailer: 2013 19'
Posts: 134
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Feeling Real
Well it's starting to feel real now, we got our first pictures of our trailer last Friday. We've never had an RV before and are looking forward to learning from all the seasoned vets that have been so helpful on this site. Our pick up date is November 25th and we can't wait.
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10-14-2013, 07:08 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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please post your pictures, we all want to see them....my hatch date is one week later.
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-14-2013, 09:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sequim, WA, Washington
Trailer: 2013 19'
Posts: 134
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Here are our first week pictures. It's like watching a child form and we are excited!
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10-14-2013, 09:24 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,312
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At the Fall NOG, we were told these are "sonogram" pictures 
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10-14-2013, 09:26 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Oakland, California
Trailer: not yet
Posts: 166
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Wow, you can really see where they glass in the wood. Are they also reinforcing any walls for you, so you can hang things?
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10-15-2013, 07:07 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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I can still see the umbilical cord.........
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-15-2013, 07:08 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LeonardS
Wow, you can really see where they glass in the wood. Are they also reinforcing any walls for you, so you can hang things?
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That is done later on the interior walls that you want reinforced for hanging items.
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-15-2013, 07:51 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Marana, Arizona
Trailer: 2018 Airstream Flying Cloud (Escape 19 & 5.0 previously)
Posts: 1,078
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Congrats on your new trailer. Lots of fun ahead.
Just curious, where is Sequim? |
Sequim is a wonderful town on Washington's NW peninsula. It's "claim to fame" is that it is in the county with the states' lowest levels of annual rainfall, making it a very popular retirement destination. We use it as a jumping off place for excursions to the Hoh Rain Forest, Hurricane Ridge, the Dungeness Spit, and of course our annual visits to Victoria.
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10-15-2013, 10:20 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Sequim has San Diego weather and it's own webcam to prove the amount of sunshine. Pilots flying overhead call it a giant blue hole in the clouds. Real weather anomaly and nice place to visit.
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Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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10-15-2013, 10:54 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Marana, Arizona
Trailer: 2018 Airstream Flying Cloud (Escape 19 & 5.0 previously)
Posts: 1,078
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The weather anomaly that Jim is referring to is quite interesting: called the "rain shadow," storms heading inland from the Pacific Ocean hit the Olympic Mountain range and are diverted to an altitude where for some reason or another (I'm no meteorologist) it doesn't rain until they fall to a lower altitude (long after they've passed over Sequim). It's so dry (less annual rainfall than Los Angeles, CA), they even hold an annual Irrigation Festival. I moved to Washington just three years ago and believe me, finding anyplace that's dry for most of the year is a big deal around here!
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10-15-2013, 11:21 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: St.Albert, Alberta
Trailer: 21 ft November 17th
Posts: 847
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I wish they would glass in some wood in the rear where the high mount lights go. I had one of ours come loose this summer. The screws are only going into the fiberglass shell and don't have much to hold on. I had to remove the trim panel in the rear corner and sneak in behind the inner soft trim and use stainless machine bolts with nuts to re-secure it . A small piece of ply wood backing in this area would give the regular screws something to bite into.
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MacRae, 21ft
2016 GMC Yukon SLT
St.Albert Alberta
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10-15-2013, 11:47 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Marana, Arizona
Trailer: 2018 Airstream Flying Cloud (Escape 19 & 5.0 previously)
Posts: 1,078
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That's very surprising that they wouldn't put something a screw could sink its teeth into. Very unlike Reace to do something like that. Did you by any chance ask his reasoning?
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10-15-2013, 08:03 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sequim, WA, Washington
Trailer: 2013 19'
Posts: 134
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Congrats on your new trailer. Lots of fun ahead.
Just curious, where is Sequim? |
Sequim is on the Olympic Peninsula across the Straits of Juan de Fuca from Victoria, Canada. It is a beautiful area surrounded by the Olympic Mountains to the south and the Straits of Juan de Fuca to the north. Sequim gets about the same amount of rainfall as Los Angeles
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10-25-2013, 09:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sequim, WA, Washington
Trailer: 2013 19'
Posts: 134
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We are in week 3 of our hatching. It's starting to feel very real now.
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10-25-2013, 10:47 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Denison, Texas
Trailer: 2015 21'; 2011 19' sold; 4Runner; ph ninezero3 327-27ninefour
Posts: 5,136
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Ron and Sharon, looks beautiful!
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Cathy. Floating Cloud
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.... "
Emerson
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