Meet & Greet Contest
Win a Meet & Greet with Bob Newhart or Tanya Tucker
What was the best RV experience you ever had at The Rally, at a Samboree or even at your favorite campground? Perhaps you made life long friendships at The Rally or a Samboree? You might even have a photo album full of unique roadside attractions from a trip with the family? Whatever the case may be, tell us about your best RV experience and you will be entered to win a meet and greet with Bob Newhart or Tanya Tucker at The Rally, July 22-25 in Louisville, KY. Don’t delay; the deadline is June 17. To submit your RV experience; the top stories will be voted on by viewers like you.
Contest Rules:
- Submissions must be about a positive RV experience.
- Your submission must be new original work that has not been previously published.
- Only one entry allowed per person. Duplicate entries will be disqualified.
- All entries must be submitted through http://therally.com/meet-greet-contest/.
- Entrants must be prepared to have their stories viewed by the public.
- All submissions must be received by June 17, 2010 11:59pm Pacific Time.
- Finalists will be posted online June 22, 2010 and voted on by The Rally viewers. Participants may vote for multiple entries, but will be able to cast only one vote per entry per day. The winner will be chosen and notified by June 28, 2010.
- Two winners will be chosen; one will receive a meet and greet with Bob Newhart (on July 22nd) and the other will receive a meet and greet with Tanya Tucker (on July 23rd). The winners will also receive complimentary dry camping at The Rally July 22-25, 2010 (camping will not be refunded if you are already registered.)
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4 Responses to “Meet & Greet Contest”
My first and most memorable RV experience took place on our family’s first camping experience in the summer of 1957. My father had purchased a brand new 1957 Plymouth 3 seat station wagon and a Heilite pop up trailer. I am not sure on the spelling of the Hilight or Heilite trailer. It was one of the first on the market and it was not exactly a pop up. The top would fold out and the top of the trailer was a doublt bed and the tent part of the unit was the rest of the sleep space. It looked like a tent, but under the trailer itself were just the wheels of the trailer. Anyway, we headed west from Battle Creek, Michigan — there were 6 of us… my mom, dad, older almost 18 year old brother Jay, my little 7 year old sister Trudy, my 5 month old baby brother Rick, and me, who had just turned 15 in June. Nothing much happened along the way to Yellowstone, which was our destination. This trip took place back in he day that you did not need to make resevations, so we had none. We got into Yellowstone late at night and learned that the main campground was full. They put us in an over flow campground. About that time, my mother needed to use the facilities. So, Dad got a flashlight and off they went in search of a toilet. They found an outhouse and Mother went in, taking the flash light with her, leaving my dad in the pitch black night. In a matter of seconds, there was a knock on the door as my dad realized that he did not want to stand outside in the dark in bear country. In he went. In no time at all, they heard the sounds of a bear. They looked outside and sure enough there was a black bear walking around. Well, all of a sudden my mother totally lost the urge to urinate and the 2 of them hightailed it back to the tent. I guess fear stops bodily functions. We laughed about that for year.
Another incident occurred on the same trip. The very next day we got into the main campground, Canyon Junction I believe it was called. Mom and Dad set up camp. The next day my dad and brother wet fishing in Yellowstone Lake. My sister and I took a trail ride. My mother stayed back at the campground with baby Ricky. He was napping in a baby travel bed in the shade of a tree while my mom did some laundry. She was hanging up some kitchen towels on a line to dry when another camper came up to her and told her how she had just seen a big black bear sniffing the laundry basket that Mom had left in the shade of the tree. Mom glanced at the basket that the lady was describing and declared, “That is not my laundry — that is my baby!!!!!” True story. She immediately moved the bed to a safer place and kept her eyes on Ricky the rest of the trip.
Our best RV experience – among many great ones – was our first. My wife and I were invited to a wedding about 800 miles from our home, and were feeling the financial pinch of newlyweds too much for a conventional trip. So, we borrowed my father-in-law’s van camper, and headed off. We arrived without incident at a campground near the wedding, attended the breakfast for out-of-towners, and were sitting in our lawn chairs next to the curb in front of the church sipping champagne as the other guests started to arrive – and I was wearing my kilt since the wedding had a Scottish theme. After a wonderful time at the wedding and reception, we set out towards home. Since it was the beginning of a holiday weekend, we took the senic route through Chattanoga and the Smokie Mountains. On our first night at the Chattanoga KOA our campsite was above the swimming pool with a perfect view of the band and dance that was the evening’ event, and our second night at the Cherokee KOA was spent next to the creek listening to another good band playing. The trip through the mountains was beutiful, watching rafters and tubers float down the rivers, and the friendly and welcoming atmosphere was teriffic. It didn’t take us long to find and affordable used Class B, and we have been RVing ever since.
Mike and I live in Aurora, Co and have enjoyed RVing for 25 years. We have attended every Rally since the great North American RV Rally in Gillette, Wy. Everyone has been unique to us in different ways from beautiful sunny weather to watching helicopters trying to dry the parking area in Hutchinson, Ks.
But our favorite so far has been when we traveled to beautiful Redmond, Or to the 2007 rally. We had no intention of buying a new RV but always enjoy looking and dreaming. We walked into a 2008 Windsport by Four Winds and fell in love with it. I told Mike this is the one and he agreed. We had them put together a deal for us and on July 19, our 30th Wedding Anniversary, we became the proud owners of a new Windsport. It is beautiful and is just what we wanted with a fireplace, 32″ TV behind the passenger seat and triple slides.
Just before we were notified that we were qualified for the Motorhome we were called by Flying J to let us know we had just won $250. gas card. It was a very exciting Rally for us.
Along with all of that as if that’s not enough, several members of our Good Sams camping club, Arapahoe Sams, also were in attendance so we were able to share our excitement with them.
I am sure we will have a lot more wonderful RVing experiences but for us so far that has been the most memorable for us..
Looking forward to Louisville Rally to meet up with old friends we have met through the years.
I would have to say me and my family took our rvs to hillman ferry campground.We didn’t realize that our camper had been struck by lightening until we were a hour away and set up blowed up all tvs microwave everything so we were pretty bummed. Any way we had air by some grace of God so we stayed our aunt had her rig next to ours and she had a generator. Anyway trying to make the most of a bad situation we decided to make homade ice cream, we had a older ice cream maker that hadnt been used for a while so we mixed up all the stuff put it in it plugged it in nothing, so my husband and my uncle took the whole thing apart and “fixed It ” they plugged it in and at that exact moment the whole campground lost power! 100 degrees outside and people were in line to leave in about 30 minutes a line of campers leaving. We were so discusted with the whole weekend my aunt talked us in to coming over to her rig to cool off so we r all sitting in the front looking out the window when we could see a light flashing it was the electric company and they stopped right in front of our camper! my aunt and uncle was yelling their over here its there fault! lol Now we take the hexed icecream maker along for a joke and leave it at each others sites,to this day we don’t know if we caused the major blackout! but its a running joke in our family.