{"id":26,"date":"2012-06-21T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ed450193-3c0b-42dc-adc2-5a9f0179cefe"},"modified":"2014-10-05T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T13:32:32","slug":"shakedown-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"22-24 June 2012: Shakedown cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a dozen or so campgrounds within 30 minutes of our house, so it was only natural to make our first trip to one of those: easy to get to and easy to get back to the house if necessary. So we went to <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.recreation.gov\/camping\/Holiday_Ga\/r\/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&amp;parkId=71210\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Campground<\/a>, one of the many fine Corps of Engineers campgrounds at <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sam.usace.army.mil\/westpt\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Point Lake<\/a>. And the verdict on our new ACE 30.1? Wow! Everything about it is completely perfect.<\/p>\n<p>The unit fits nicely in a Corps-sized site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE01sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE01sm.jpg\" alt=\"201206ACE01sm\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE01sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE01sm-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even Sally, the wonder miniature long-haired Dachshund, likes it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE08sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE08sm.jpg\" alt=\"201206ACE08sm\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE08sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/201206ACE08sm-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we spent the weekend exploring Ace&#8217;s features (OK, so we gave our RV a name and its name is its manufacturer&#8217;s model name &#8230; pretty lame), reading manuals, and trying to understand those systems that were completely new to us (like levelers, generator, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time for the first real trip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a dozen or so campgrounds within 30 minutes of our house, so it was only natural to make our first trip to one of those: easy to get to and easy to get back to the house if necessary. So we went to Holiday Campground, one of the many fine Corps of Engineers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;22-24 June 2012: Shakedown cruise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}