Some RVForum Nostalgia

[DonTom]

Back around 2004???

Or perhaps Apr 21, 2005?

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[DonTom]

A few weeks later met Canadians Peter & Collette Cashmore for the first time in British Columbia.

Tom & I met them a few times at the Peace Arch RV Park in "Whte Rock" as Collette used to call that area of Surrey, BC (near Vancouver). She told me "nobody is Surrey to call it 'White Rock' " which is a nice area near there on the coast.

We went out together (all four of us) for lunch and dinner several times.

I think I heard they got divorced, and Collette has been MIA here ever since.

I hope she will return here someday, but it has been many years.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[SpencerPJ]

Great thread. As I am almost certain to be the youngest around (a mere 60), the amount of information I have learned is much appreciated, and everyone's (especially the seniors) wisdom is priceless. I hope in 20 years I have the enthusiasm to share knowledge as all of you do! Never think that you have no more to add, because that next thread might be everything that OP could ever have asked. There is a post currently active about motorhome engines, and performance etc. That OP would never find advise and wisdom as you guys (and gals) are giving.

 

[Alaskansnowbirds]

Don, I apologize for omitting you from the list of still-active old-timers. My memory ain't what it use

No problem Gary, I still can't remember the couple's name that had the rabbit. I've been trying to remember the other off-line reader that was popular. Taken me two days but I think it was Ozwin.

I remember everything, it's just my retrieval system that doesn't work anymore.

 

[CharlesinGA]

Now, after 9 years on the RV sidelines, I'm starting to notice that there are more & more threads where I can't contribute very much worthwhile

You know the larger, older rigs very well, and answer questions about those better than anyone else, and that counts for alot..

I'm a newby, just passed 10 years since buying my first RV. Its the old sage, "you have forgotten more than I'll ever learn"

Charles

 

[oldwildman]

Just a newbie here and to rvs in general. But on this site enough to know that your knowledge is darn near indispensable. Anytime I posted a problem I hoped that you would provide some input. Like CharlesinGA said, "you have forgotten more than I'll ever learn". Thanks for all the advice and hope you'll hang around to give a lot more!

 

[Tom]

I've been trying to remember the other off-line reader that was popular.

OzWin was the Windows version of IIRC OzCIS, which superceded Tapcis (a DOS program). Wigwam was another OLR, which I think was succeded by Virtual Access (aka VA). OLRs (Offline Readers) all quit working when CIS dropped their HMI (host micro interface) software.

A simplified explanation for folks who missed the fun experience ...

Back in the day, we paid CIS (Compuserve Information Service) by the hour for access time to the service, and paid wireless carriers for expen$ive cell minutes. Less so for landlines. An OLR would make a quick pass to pick up thread/message headers (aka subject lines) and log off. Offline the user would select the threads/messages they wanted to download, and the OLR would make another pass to retrieve only the selected threads/messages, and log off. We'd read the downloaded messages offline (thus the name Offline Reader), and compose any replies. The OLR would make a final pass to upload any replies. This entire process minimized the time online and our monthly phone (cell or landline) bills.

 

[Tom]

This entire process minimized the time online and our monthly phone (cell or landline) bills.

At the 1995 RV Forum rally in Plymouth, CA one of our forum staff leased a land line from the local phone company. He purchased and ran phone cord to every rally member's site. We were essentially all hooked together, and he came up with a way of voluntarily limiting access to one person at a time; Anyone wanting to get online would hang a flag on a light post, minimize their time online, and lower the flag - so others knew the "network" was available for use.

 

[Tom]

Tom & I met them a few times ...

I think I heard they got divorced, and Collette has been MIA here ever since.

The last time we saw them, Collette and Peter met Chris & I and 4 friends when our cruise ship docked at Cabo San Lucas. Collette held her (old design) forum flag to be sure we recognized her. They took us to their trailer on a nearby beach.

Colette Cashmore

Colette displays her RV Forum flag at Cabo San Lucas. Photo by Tom Jones.

www.rvforum.net

Yes, they went their separate ways, and it's been a long time since I've communicated with her.

 

[DonTom]

The last time we saw them, Collette and Peter met Chris & I and 4 friends when our cruise ship docked at Cabo San Lucas. Collette held her (old design) forum flag to be sure we recognized her. They took us to their trailer on a nearby beach.

Colette Cashmore

Colette displays her RV Forum flag at Cabo San Lucas. Photo by Tom Jones.

www.rvforum.net

Yes, they went their separate ways, and it's been a long time since I've communicated with her.

Yeah, I know they went down there often with their rigs. Tom & I have also done the cruise boat to Cabo San Lucas (and Mazatlán and Puerto Vallarta)but not when they were there.

That cruise was in 2005:

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[ernieekberg]

Ron Marabito introduced me to this forum. Liz Pearce was another member. Along with Bob Maxwell, Jim Godward- and I met Tom at the forum get together at Quartzite. I’m 78 and still have my Foretravel

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

Taken me two days but I think it was Ozwin.

That's it! I couldn't remember it either, even though I used it for years! As I recall, Ozwin was more user-friendly but Tapcis offered more user controls.

 

[Tom]

That's it! I couldn't remember it either, even though I used it for years! As I recall, Ozwin was more user-friendly but Tapcis offered more user controls.

OzWin = Windows, Tapcis = DOS.

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

Tom & I met them a few times at the Peace Arch RV Park in "Whte Rock" as Collette used to call that area of Surrey, BC (near Vancouver). She told me "nobody is Surrey to call it 'White Rock' " which is a nice area near there on the coast.

We went out together (all four of us) for lunch and dinner several times.

I think I heard they got divorced, and Collette has been MIA here ever since.

I hope she will return here someday, but it has been many years.

-Don- Reno, NV

Peter & Colette visited us in Florida in 2008. As I recall, they got some property in Mexico for their trailer and Peter kind of "went native". Colette wasn't quite so gung-ho and after awhile they split up. Colette got her own trailer and traveled around the US and Canada but I lost track of her several years ago.

We called him "Painful Peter" because he epitomized the term "paralysis by analysis". But both of them were pleasant company and fabulous hosts if you visited their homebase at Peace Arch Park.

 

[Alaskansnowbirds]

The last time we saw them, Collette and Peter met Chris & I and 4 friends when our cruise ship docked at Cabo San Lucas. Collette held her (old design) forum flag to be sure we recognized her. They took us to their trailer on a nearby beach.

Colette Cashmore

Colette displays her RV Forum flag at Cabo San Lucas. Photo by Tom Jones.

www.rvforum.net

Yes, they went their separate ways, and it's been a long time since I've communicated with her.

I looked Collette up on Facebook. There is a post on October 24, 2024 that Collette had passed away in Mulege. I'm sure it's the same Collette because Ron Marabito and Bob Buchanan are listed as mutual friends.

 

[Tom]

I looked Collette up on Facebook. There is a post on October 24, 2024 that Collette had passed away in Mulege. I'm sure it's the same Collette because Ron Marabito and Bob Buchanan are listed as mutual friends.

How sad. Yes, I believe Mulege is where she had a lot and IIRC built a place. We first met Collette and Peter at the 1995 Plymouth, CA rally.

 

[DonTom]

" Colette Cashmore, 69, originally from England and also with Canadian nationality, disappeared on October 11 in the Benavides neighborhood, in Heroica Mulegé, in the north of the state"

Info from here.

 

[DonTom]

I wonder what this part is about (translated to English):

" Relatives and relatives requested the support of the local population because the woman suffered from a mental condition."

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[Jackiemac]

I wonder what this part is about (translated to English):

" Relatives and relatives requested the support of the local population because the woman suffered from a mental condition."

-Don- Auburn, CA

Dementia potentially....

 

[DonTom]

Dementia potentially....

Yeah, possible, It was many years ago I saw her last, was fine then, but that doesn't mean much.

-Don- Bisbee, AZ