Maggie Valley 2018 Registration & Info

DblTrbl said:
things are work are getting scary. I'm guessing that by June I will no longer have a job here. At this time still planning on attending MV in Sept.

If they lay me off or close the doors, I will be selling my house and just about everything else (except the trike). I will be moving south..... location is still unknown but may hang my hat in Greer SC for a bit before moving on to Florida.

funny how fast life can change. You can go from the Penthouse to the Outhouse in the blink of an eye.
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That's terrible news! If you in fact come south and eventually decide to move to FL please consult with those of us who live here. We'll be happy to help you make an informed decision about what part of the state you'll be happy in.

In the mean time I wish you all the good luck in keeping your job, prayers too.

See you at MV!
 
It didn't work!

PosseRider said:
Feed it more rice
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Hey, I tried, I took your suggestion seriously! I poured a giant bag of rice into the carburetor, but all I got was brown cooked rice out of the exhaust that went great with an order of Chow Mein I had just picked up for supper. I had my wife holding the pedal to the metal - apparently the engine had to run wide open to exhaust the rice - anything less than full throttle caused the engine to stall. Thanks for the suggestion bro, but it just didn't work!

Chaplain Dave
 
2Paps said:
That's terrible news! If you in fact come south and eventually decide to move to FL please consult with those of us who live here. We'll be happy to help you make an informed decision about what part of the state you'll be happy in.

In the mean time I wish you all the good luck in keeping your job, prayers too.

See you at MV!
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Go ahead Swabby, lay it on me. PM me with some info. As I said, I'm in the Outhouse so needs to be a relatively low cost of living. Would you consider me parking a trailer in your yard? LOL
 
Chaplain Dave said:
I thought of that also, but A/T fluid is red and the garage floor was starting to look like I was bleeding to death! (The truth be known, I HATE leaks of any kind on what I drive. Forget to check the fluid level, and you just bought the farm!)

You can't find a cheaper place to live than eastern Tennessee, it's part of the reason why Sara and I moved here 10 years ago!

I will keep you in prayer bro, going from the penthouse to the outhouse is not a fun trip!

Chaplain Dave
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Dave,

I tried to PM you but it says I don't have permission to send you PM messages. So, if you can PM me with some areas or towns in that would be of interest in Easter TN, that would be fantastic. I will google them and then decide if I will check them out on my trip south.

Thanks
 
Dennis, sorry to hear about the possible bad news. PM's are disabled for the time being, the site is having a major problem with spammers.
 
Dennis sorry to hear and hopefully you can hang on.I wondered about you when construction on that plant in South Carolina stopped last year.
 
Marc H said:
Dennis sorry to hear and hopefully you can hang on.I wondered about you when construction on that plant in South Carolina stopped last year.
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Thanks Marc,

Yes shutting down that site put a hurt on us. Cut well over 100,000 man hours from our workload. We were hoping the government would step in and save the day but no such luck so far. We have the parts in storage not knowing if they will ever be used. They are site specific so if the project never gets finished, we have millions of dollars of parts to scrap.

I'm looking for the good to come from whatever lays ahead. I either stay here and work a few more years in this job OR I sell off everything and head south. One option is to take up RV living and see the country. All options are on the table..LOL
 
DblTrbl said:
Go ahead Swabby, lay it on me. PM me with some info. As I said, I'm in the Outhouse so needs to be a relatively low cost of living. Would you consider me parking a trailer in your yard? LOL
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Don’t know what type work you are doing but they are SCREAMING for help out here in the oilfields of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico (aka, the Permian Basin). We have a major boom going again. You’d have to bring your trailer - no place else to live. They are building apartments and houses as fast as they can and gouging like crazy, but can’t keep up. The trailer sales lots are going bonkers.

Best of luck to you.
 
Paws, thanks for the info however I think they would be looking for someone a bit younger.(even though I claim to be 49).

If I was 30 years younger I would probably go for it.
 
Life in eastern TN.

DblTrbl said:
Dave,

I tried to PM you but it says I don't have permission to send you PM messages. So, if you can PM me with some areas or towns in that would be of interest in Easter TN, that would be fantastic. I will google them and then decide if I will check them out on my trip south. Thanks
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Hey bro, I can't reach you via PM either.

Sara and I have lived in NY and are tired of snow and cold, and the high cost of living, we lived in south Florida for 30 years and got tired of the sweltering summer heat, tired of hurricanes & tornadoes, tired of high taxes, tired of paying more for basic living expenses, and fed up with outrageous home owner insurance costs. That said, I did a study on the weather everywhere in the USA before moving here, and concluded that the only place for us to live was in the pie shaped eastern tip of Tennessee that is protected by mountains all around. I have discovered since that this area has a mild winter and a mild summer thanks to the mountains, and that you can ride a bike or trike year round. (The weather and the road pavement are too hot in FL during the summer for daytime rides, so if you want to take a ride, make it a late afternoon or evening ride.)

Housing here is dirt cheap! We have a bi-level brick 1825 sq' home on nearly an acre of property with a giant 2 car+ basement garage (I have had a camping trailer and 2 vehicles in it), a family room with a fireplace and 3 bedrooms & 2 1/2 baths that would sell for less than $150,000 - in FL or NY it would be a $400,000 home!

The biggest benefit of the area is that the people here are very friendly & unusually honest, and not out to get the contents of your wallet! In NY & FL people are too busy trying to survive to waste any time talking, but it is a simple matter here to engage in a conversation when you are shopping, eating out or taking trike rides. People will communicate with you, and not look at you like you are some kind of a nut!

Sara and I spent the better part of a lifetime looking for a GREAT place to live, and we found it some 10 years ago!

I will be praying for some light to shine into the confusion that has come your way.

May you be healthy, happy & blessed,

Dave
 
Chaplain Dave

we are going to have to talk as Judy and I much like you are tired of the city and taxes etc.. We are looking to relocate somewhere. What you describe sounds perfect

my one question is how's the fishing?
 
Lot's of lakes & rivers here!

JohnnyB said:
Chaplain Dave, we are going to have to talk as Judy and I much like you are tired of the city and taxes etc.. We are looking to relocate somewhere. What you describe sounds perfect. My one question is how's the fishing?
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Hey bro, I am not kidding when I say eastern TN is a fisherman's paradise. If you look at a map that shows you where the water is, you will find tributaries to the Holston River everywhere. We have lots of small lakes, and some big one's created by the TVA during WW II for conservation and electricity for the Oak Ridge atomic research lab. I am not a fisherman, but judging from the number of bass type boats you see everywhere, you can bet they are not for Sunday rides! Type "fishing in eastern TN" in your Web browser, and you will get some 12,800,000 answers! There are many public launch sites, and at least a couple of them within 3 miles of where I live. You see a lot of waders too, so apparently you do not need to have a boat to get the fish.

We are surrounded by mountains that provide us with water, but if you like trike rides that have lots of turns, our mountains provide them also. If you look at a terrain map you will find our pie shaped end of TN has mountains everywhere, and they protect us from the storms of winter and the sometimes violent storms of summer. Virginia is east of us and you would think they would have milder weather, but they do not! Storms are directed around us by our mountains, and when they hit the Shenandoah mountains in VA, they drop all our snow and bad weather there! We also have a road called the snake that is like the dragon at Deals Gap. The snake has the turns of the dragon, but here we have shoulders and wider roads, so we don't the daily accident's of the dragon.

Our taxes are around $1200 a year because we live in a incorporated township, if you live on non-incorporated land, taxes are probably $400 less. Car insurance is around $500 a year, and my trike insurance is $135 a year. I don't think you will find a cheaper place to live, and I can say that from experience. Although as I told Dennis, the best part about eastern TN is that most people here (even newbies like Sara and I) have the mentality of "mountain folks," and are very communicative and very accepting of new people. Each of us sorta makes a stand on who we are, and I like that.

Sara and I have experienced life in the north and life in the south, and I can honestly say that our move to TN some 10 years ago, was the best move we ever made!

Take care,

Chaplain Dave
 
Chaplain Dave said:
Hey bro, I am not kidding when I say eastern TN is a fisherman's paradise. If you look at a map that shows you where the water is, you will find tributaries to the Holston River everywhere. We have lots of small lakes, and some big one's created by the TVA during WW II for conservation and electricity for the Oak Ridge atomic research lab. I am not a fisherman, but judging from the number of bass type boats you see everywhere, you can bet they are not for Sunday rides! Type "fishing in eastern TN" in your Web browser, and you will get some 12,800,000 answers! There are many public launch sites, and at least a couple of them within 3 miles of where I live. You see a lot of waders too, so apparently you do not need to have a boat to get the fish.

We are surrounded by mountains that provide us with water, but if you like trike rides that have lots of turns, our mountains provide them also. If you look at a terrain map you will find our pie shaped end of TN has mountains everywhere, and they protect us from the storms of winter and the sometimes violent storms of summer. Virginia is east of us and you would think they would have milder weather, but they do not! Storms are directed around us by our mountains, and when they hit the Shenandoah mountains in VA, they drop all our snow and bad weather there! We also have a road called the snake that is like the dragon at Deals Gap. The snake has the turns of the dragon, but here we have shoulders and wider roads, so we don't the daily accident's of the dragon.

Our taxes are around $1200 a year because we live in a incorporated township, if you live on non-incorporated land, taxes are probably $400 less. Car insurance is around $500 a year, and my trike insurance is $135 a year. I don't think you will find a cheaper place to live, and I can say that from experience. Although as I told Dennis, the best part about eastern TN is that most people here (even newbies like Sara and I) have the mentality of "mountain folks," and are very communicative and very accepting of new people. Each of us sorta makes a stand on who we are, and I like that.

Sara and I have experienced life in the north and life in the south, and I can honestly say that our move to TN some 10 years ago, was the best move we ever made!

Take care,

Chaplain Dave
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THANK YOU

Sounds like my kinda heaven

looking forward to talking more in Maggie Valley
 
Howdy folks,

Several have contacted me about organizing events and rides for the the MV Gathering.

I started the ball rolling by contacting Zook so we could get the hotel. Unfortunately, with my job situation and preparing my house to sell, my plate is totally full and I'm not even getting into the stress factor(s).

We have may good people attending and I'm sure if you post ideas here and get feedback or suggestions from others I am confident everything will run smoothly.

As I have already told one member, sometimes you can have too much scheduled. I know I go to relax and do a few new rides and meet folks with the same interest. After a thousand mile ride down (in 2 days or less), just sitting back with a beer suits me just fine.

I'm going to try to get name tags made up and I will bring with me for the registration.

Chaplain Dave mentioned Ride Waivers......Randy, do you have those on hand already? If so, we would need them for check in.

Also mentioned by Chaplain Dave was trike games, poker run and 50/50 raffle.

Let's all have a discussion and see what we would like to do. Just keep in mind, not everyone may participate or have the $$ to donate or participate in every event.
 
Fishing in eastern Tennessee

JohnnyB said:
Chaplain Dave, we are going to have to talk as Judy and I much like you are tired of the city and taxes etc.. We are looking to relocate somewhere. What you describe sounds perfect. My one question is how's the fishing?
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Hey bro! I just ran across this on fishing in eastern TN and thought of you! Apparently the fish are just there waiting for your lure! Bluff City is about 30 miles southeast of us and closer to the Smokies; that means more of the benefits of winter, although there is never any ice and you can fish year round with waders or a boat.

https://www.tnvacation.com/articles/fishing-tennessee

The South Fork Holston River in Bluff City may quite possibly be the best trout fishery east of the Mississippi River. South Fork Holston River tailwater below South Holston Lake provides 18 miles of fishable water. The population of rainbow and brown trout in the river has been estimated at 6,000 fish per mile, and has trout up to 20 inches long.

Chaplain Dave
 
Fish Fry?

DblTrbl said:
Can you say......FISH FRY?
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Hey, you gotta catch 'em first! Our Tennessee rivers offers you the potential for a good meal - HOWEVER - our fish are trained to give you a fight and not jump into your fish box! And if you are a Yankee, our fish definitely will try your patience and fishing ability. Our fish can tell the difference between a Yankee lure and a Confederate lure, and they prefer the lures of the redneck good ole boys, they get the fish when no one else can! All things said, it is more fun talking about fishing than doing it; if it's a nice day - a trike ride suits me just fine!

The article I posted on fishing TN rivers, says the eastern Holston River has some 6000 trout per mile. That number makes me think that even I could catch a trout if I tried!

I do love fish! All the super markets around here sell them, and I love the do it yourself aspect of taking your pick from their display!

CD (Chaplain Dave)
 
You can be a very funny guy sometimes CD. LOL

I have caught fish all over the USA, Korea and Germany. I think this Yankee can trick a couple of your confederate fish to take the bait.

BTW, I'm looking at several small Log cabins. One is on the lake at Mountain City and the other is in Crosby. Lake cabin is extremely rustic but the price is right. I will bring my tools. Need to give the agent a call back since I think he lost my email address LOL.
 
You got me going when you asked about fish fries! LOL!

DblTrbl said:
You can be a very funny guy sometimes CD. LOL I have caught fish all over the USA, Korea and Germany. I think this Yankee can trick a couple of your confederate fish to take the bait. BTW, I'm looking at several small Log cabins. One is on the lake at Mountain City and the other is in Crosby. Lake cabin is extremely rustic but the price is right. I will bring my tools. Need to give the agent a call back since I think he lost my email address LOL.
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Both cabins are in boon-dock locations, and subject to having more cold and more snow thanks to their proximity to the Smokies, particularly the Mountain City location. If a rustic location is what you want, either location should please you. Likely there will be no building codes, and you can do whatever you want with your property.

Being older I prefer a non-city country location where I can easily access medical services, go shopping, get gasoline, have quick food, etc. I have 3 auto parts stores within a mile or two, and it's nice for when I need some kind of auto part.

I hope you find exactly what you are looking for, in fact, I will pray for that to happen! Be blessed!

CD (Chaplain Dave)
 
Please remove us from the registration "Bill Risley." I have canceled the Best Western ,so if someone needs a room at host, it just opened up.
 
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