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01-24-2021, 07:18 PM
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#161
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Overbrook, Kansas
Trailer: 2021 E19 (Padawan)
Posts: 1,979
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Dave, mine is a Chevy, not GMC, but it is green. It’s named Cruncher because when it had 2000 miles on it, a building fell on it. I paid 19K for it and GEICO spent 18.5K fixing it.
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Randy & Barb
1998 C 2500 (Cruncher) and 2021 Ranger (Yoda)
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01-24-2021, 07:31 PM
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#162
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,260
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Oldies but goodies
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Originally Posted by brroberts
Dave, mine is a Chevy, not GMC, but it is green. It’s named Cruncher because when it had 2000 miles on it, a building fell on it. I paid 19K for it and GEICO spent 18.5K fixing it.
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My encounter with Ginny was in about 1992 or 93. I’d say the pickup was early 70s. In this country that means the salt hat eaten about 1/3 of the body, the spare tire was in the bed because the spare tire holder had rusted off and wires held the headlights in place. If you get up Iowa way and we camp together I’ll finish that memory, the second half of our stay was pretty scary for me.
Iowa Dave
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01-24-2021, 07:35 PM
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#163
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Overbrook, Kansas
Trailer: 2021 E19 (Padawan)
Posts: 1,979
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Mine’s not that old - ‘98. There are some around here still from ‘70’s, but not many.
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Randy & Barb
1998 C 2500 (Cruncher) and 2021 Ranger (Yoda)
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01-25-2021, 06:59 AM
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#164
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: millerton ny, New York
Trailer: 94 sportmobile, 70' travco, 86' u haul, 13' escape 19'
Posts: 19
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gen Robert e lee's white horse, "traveler", went threw the entire civil war w/o a scratch, never letting him down. With that dependability in mind, my 1970 travco is named traveler. after 30 plus years of use (mostly local now) it has never more than threw a shoe (flat tire) !
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01-25-2021, 08:53 AM
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#165
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
Trailer: 2015 Escape 5.0TA (Little Elsie) Extensively Personalized
Posts: 2,976
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Quote:
Originally Posted by camp4528
In the “Olive” tradition, I am also considering Grace which is a very serene name for a hopefully serene camping lifestyle. It also happens to be my wife’s name.
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If naming it after your wife, perhaps “Amazing Grace” would be appropriate.
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What a long strange trip it’s been!
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01-25-2021, 09:39 AM
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#166
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Brockville (Near Ottawa), Ontario
Trailer: 2010 Prolite Mini
Posts: 303
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Quote:
Originally Posted by C&G in FL
If naming it after your wife, perhaps “Amazing Grace” would be appropriate.
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Yes indeed she is pretty, amazing.
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01-25-2021, 10:09 AM
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#167
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
Posts: 8,038
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Green w/ envy!!!
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Originally Posted by brroberts
Dave, mine is a Chevy, not GMC, but it is green. It’s named Cruncher because when it had 2000 miles on it, a building fell on it. I paid 19K for it and GEICO spent 18.5K fixing it.
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Hi: brroberts... I won't touch that one with a ten ft. poll Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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01-25-2021, 12:34 PM
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#168
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ..., New Mexico
Trailer: 2013 Esc19/'14 Silvrado
Posts: 4,193
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I call mine the "Egg Salad Sandwich."
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"A billion here, a billion there...add it all up and before you know it you're talking real money." Everett Dirkson
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01-25-2021, 01:14 PM
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#169
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,260
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That’s a good one Myron errrr Bernie.
Iowa Dave
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Ain’t no trouble jacking a double Burma Shave
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01-25-2021, 01:20 PM
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#170
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Austin, Texas
Trailer: 2019 5.0TA "Junior", 2019 Ram 1500 5.7 Hemi
Posts: 1,600
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In 1999 we bought a 24 foot fifth wheel and named it "Brighty" after my wife's favorite childhood book "Brighty of the Grand Canyon". We had a lot of good times in Brighty until it eventually disintegrated as all the stickies eventually do. When we discovered Escape and got our 5.0TA we started off calling it "Brighty Junior" since it's several feet shorter....that quickly got abbreviated to just "Junior".
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David, Mary, and the cats
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01-25-2021, 03:56 PM
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#171
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA "Zen"
Posts: 1,390
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Nice pics David.
Glad for you that you got a traveling companion that likes good literature.
Seems to be working!
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01-25-2021, 05:10 PM
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#172
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Hudson, Ohio
Trailer: 2017 Escape 19 "Terrapin"
Posts: 428
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Dave, as always I love your stories.
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Things are more like they are now than they've ever been before.
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01-25-2021, 06:58 PM
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#173
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Kelowna, British Columbia
Trailer: 2018 Escape 19
Posts: 2,720
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I did drag my feet a bit before selecting a name. I wanted something that would both suit the trailer and my forum names as well.
I checked out Eggscape on both the Fiberglass trailer forum and here and to my surprise it was available on both. The birth of a name. Me second choice was going to be Edscape but never did find out if it was available on both forums.
Needing something to do while I was waiting for our trailer to be built in 2018, I ordered the Eggscape decals from Aliexpress. The vendor matched the font for me and I am extremely happy with the quality of the vinyl after 3 years of service. Not knowing that the vinyl was going to be that good, I ordered lots. But for about $ 10 a roll, which contains 4 Eggscapes they were not that expensive.
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01-25-2021, 07:21 PM
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#174
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,260
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Oh-io
Quote:
Originally Posted by mcdonner
Dave, as always I love your stories.
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HI Ralph
What would life be without one time memorable occurrences? As I get older I recall those minutes and hours when I had an experience that at the time I thought I would experience several times in my life. But the years went by and most of those good times became “one off”. But when we are at a rally or just camping, I usually come away with one or more “observations”. Some days are diamonds and some days are coal as the song goes.
We’re doing great, enough food, fuel and water to last till spring. Tractor backed in along the the Escape and plugged in, snowblower ready to go. The only thing suspect is my back.
I’ve noticed a number of new Escape owners from Ohio of late. That’s a good thing. Hope all is well with you and trust you are keeping your nuts torqued with that premium wrench you won.
All the best,
Iowa Dave
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01-27-2021, 10:27 PM
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#175
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Gresham, Oregon
Trailer: 2013 17B
Posts: 7
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The name I saw somewhere that I thought was great...Past Tents. Perfect!
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01-27-2021, 10:40 PM
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#176
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
Posts: 10,222
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rickshaw
The name I saw somewhere that I thought was great...Past Tents. Perfect!
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Yeah, we like it. We still get comments about it everywhere we go. I'm sure there must be other RVs with the same name but we've not run into them.
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01-27-2021, 11:23 PM
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#177
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Gresham, Oregon
Trailer: 2013 17B
Posts: 7
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I think my appreciation of your trailer name goes back to the nuns who beat the odds and managed to educate a few of us back in the day.
Great name!
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01-27-2021, 11:38 PM
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#178
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Member
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Driggs, ID / Collinsville, Illinois
Trailer: 2019 Escape 19
Posts: 54
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Our 19 is named Seymour (See More), which is why we bought it - to see more of North America up-close and in-depth. Mr. Peabody and Sherman are the TV's that get Seymour from place-to-place. Really enjoyed some of the other creative names members have for their units.
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01-27-2021, 11:57 PM
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#179
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Trailer: 2009 Escape 17B 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE
Posts: 17,136
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Mine is Toad. I wasn't aware that that term was in use by motor homes dragging a vehicle. And, I don't care.
My wife still calls it "the tent trailer".
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01-28-2021, 08:39 AM
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#180
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tucson, AZ, Arizona
Trailer: gone, 19 and 21 & 17B with 5.0 now. gone
Posts: 790
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trailer names
Nancy thinks our 5th wheel will be (On the road again) hope it's legal to use the phrase.
AZjack
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