Hippy is correct, I'm talking RVs here for folks who don't wrench their own. Your Silverado has a great Allison transmission that's the gold standard, IMHO. There's a hill of difference in labor between an auto or truck and an RV with an engine in it. The Left Coast is very mountainous and it gets old fast to be on an incline pulling your boat/quads/trailer/horses at 45 and be passed by a DuraMax doing 75. And you'll wish you were getting 12 mpg pulling that horse trailer at 45. The current GMC engines are 200,000 mile designs (Sierra, Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon) and the diesels (DuraMax) are 500,000 mile designs. Teardrops will have lower height which will pay off in mileage and many nicer campsites will be an option, where the truck campers (popups and crankups excluded here) will be scraping a few branches or down in the meadow. Of course, it's easier to back up a truck camper so there's a world of options out there. I've sold a ton of GMC trucks and as a Ford man let me say they're hard to beat.

Great ideas do not necessarily mean billion dollar budgets or a large corporation to be behind it. World over, in clean tech and renewable energy, small entrepreneurs and many amateurs are excited enough to try small, little efforts that could together make a big difference to the future of the world. For instance, here's one such interesting small idea for awareness creation, the Zero Energy Truck: "Zero Energy Truck all across India. The idea behind the ZET is to showcase how the importance of green buildings � essentially the inside of the truck tries to simulate a net zero energy building, through the use of renewable and green energy sources. Most parts of the ZET already has sponsors. Isabelle is looking for sponsors for the solar PV system to be installed for the truck. If your company is interested in being a sponsor and getting some green mileage, here�s how you contact Isabelle � isabelle@inspiredgreen.in Some more details of ZET: The concept - A Net Zero building which is energy efficient as well as generates all it�s power needs with PV panels on the rooftop � A Green Building par excellence. The growth of Green Building materials and products has been very encouraging, but awareness needs to improve within the design & construction community. Since most of the green building materials and strategies are different from conventional construction practices it needs efforts to educate people and make them realize that green practices can be incorporated in every building. Oh well, you might say that this is a cute but trivial idea and most times, I would be inclined to agree with you. But somewhere down, I feel that the awareness about clean technology and sustainability might be better created through such cute and somewhat "naive" ideas than through than by sophisticated looking gentlemen who present complex charts and data. What do you think? Here is a link that might be useful: Looking for Solar Cell Sponsors

About 10 years ago, my husband and I moved to a new house in a new development. Only one street in and out, with just 12 houses total in the development. I got up to go to work one morning and noticed that one of my husband's truck was not in the driveway. This was not unusual as he has two and he often let his staff drive one overnight if they had personal car trouble. BUT, as I was driving to work, I thought, geez--wasn't his truck in the driveway when I shut the garage door before bed? So I turned around, drove back home, went inside and asked my husband, "where's your truck?". His answer "outside", me: "no, it's not", him: "yes, it is:. Me: "NO, IT's NOT". He goes outside and of course his truck is not there. Call the county sheriff office and he says "I'll be right there". Less than 5 seconds later, he's coming down the street from the cul-de-sac. Every house on our street that had a vehicle outside of the garage was broken into, and when they got to our house, they stole the truck to haul everything off! The truck was recovered 3 days later in another county after they ran out of gas. We couldn't believe not one single person on the street heard anything that night!

If you can vacuum up the stones, do that. Then just water it deeply and walk on the high spots to press them back down. Don't bring in new soil and don't remove any. If it all fit once, it will fit again. Avoid rototilling if you can. Sounds like someone used hay instead of straw on the lawn. Hay has seeds.