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I just barely pulled into Bluewater State Park on the other side of Grant, New Mexico. Having a bad wheat intolerance issue. I'm 5 or so hours away from the expo.

Night before last I stayed at the Village Creek State Park in eastern Arkansas. Here is a picture of Dunn Lake. It was raining lots so I was not venturing out among the skeeter filled forest. It was my first official night of camping in the Hawk. I passed this funny sign in Arkansas. I stayed...

There are many companies that are now making off road trailers. Manley ORV, Adventure Trailers, and a few more. If you're good at fabrication and welding you could always build one from just about any trailer chassis. Many start with one like my 1967 military jeep trailer, the M416, which I...

I was getting around 12.5-13 mpg. Today with the faring I got an avg of 15-16 mpg and yesterday coming down off the Cumberland Plateau I got a crazy 18.6.

Thanks y'all, I will!

How well do the Renogy flex panels hold up against hail?

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.

So begins the journey...tomorrow and for the next two months. I'm hoping to make it somewhere into eastern Arkansas to find a decent campsite, then over to Fayetteville to visit with an old friend. Monday I'll be driving across Oklahoma ( hopefully without tornadic activity ) and I'll try to...

Cell reception varies. I think there is WiFi at the restaurant at the lake. I may be staying up in dispersed camping just in the NF about a mile away. No dust, lots of shade, and quiet. Last year the combination of the dust and smell of the Bison waste pond were nearly unbearable at times. The...

I think my solar charger is a 60 amp

More pix mounted. Again the 2x4 will be removed for traveling and installed for setting up the camper top. I'll do it this way until I have time to make some nice bumpstops instead. Leaving tomorrow, so my time is very limited.

I'll be wearing my Gnome hat.

The deflector is installed and travels well, I've already noticed a slight increase in mileage and the wind noise has been reduced dramatically. Here are some pix of the back frame I used to make it rigid. The black plastic things are what Yakima supplies when you buy their faring, and I used...

I have two 100W flex panels on the roof and was thinking about tugging around my 100W rigid for remote usage. I have two deep cycle AGM group 31 batteries in the hawk. So I'm wondering if two hundred is enough or should I go with three? Do you find that you have enough stored energy with your...

They're most likely gonna put all of us campers on the back 40. Out on the dry lake bed. I believe the American adventurist group is right near the beginning of the lake, near the outhouses and showers. Last year we were on the backside of the obstacle track , which I would recommend against...

Can you tell us more about your AC unit?

I have a rectangular 0* bag I picked up in Grand Junction Colorado at the Wiggys factory there. Great bags, great company. American made quality. They have a number of military contracts and many of the bags come in Multicam. The "Hunter" was the only one that fit my big frame. It has a mummy...

Beautiful Charlie, where is that?

I'd love an AC unit but at the price FWC was charging for them I had to decline. I'd also love a little Honda generator but again, at nearly $7-800 that's some good travel money. I'm just gonna stick with the fan/vent combo, take a cold shower before bed and sweat out he rest...

This is an email I received from Stan at FWC. As much as I'd like to hang with them in the shade and out of all the dust associated with Mormon Lake, I'll probably be out in the lake bed area with everybody else because once you're in the FWC camp like the email says you pretty much won't be...

If anyone is interested I had the deflector made at Fast Signs. Whom I believe have locations all over the country.

Thanks Bill and Bill, I'm not done with the install. I'm attaching some aluminum angle on the back side for more rigid support and making four bumpstops to keep the edge of the faring off of the camper. I'll finish it tomorrow and post more pix. I'm just so exhausted I had to stop for the day...

Somewhere in my original order for my Hawk someone forgot to install my front vent. I'm planning on coming through California this summer and stopping by the FWC factory to have it installed. Since the other vent is more on the drivers side and not centered on the roof that I'd leave the obvious...

I picked up my new air deflector for the front of the Hawk. I had it personally stylized to go with the whole idea of over landing. The cost was negligible at $190 for the aluminum and the print. I'm gonna use my already existing Yakima bar and faring mounts with a little Foospa magic to get it...

Since no body seems to make one of decent quality. A suggestion for FWC would be to design and build some type of wind deflector much like BillHarr's.