Saturday evening and we have arrived to our campsite. Now to set up, did I mention this is the first trip of the year ?? I mean we did all the pre winter things, drained lines, blew all them out. We did all the spring things, cleaned the hot water tank, replaced the anode, smoke detector battery, oops smoke detector is hanging open, may have forgot something 9volt in nature. So I commence to hooking up to the electrical, no LED's on the top, do we have power. Hey wait camping world fixed my power cord, great, no LED's. But power in trailer so we are good. Cable connected just in case, I mean after all there is a Live PD marathon going on.
Hook up the water, turn it on, we should be all set. Then I hear from in the trailer, I have no water. Wait, what ?? OK recheck everything, feeling like Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation. Nope, good you should have water, nope. So now I start removing pieces to find what is at fault. Eventually all I am left with is the pressure reducer on the hose bib, open the water and......viola, nothing. You have to be kidding. Now the campground has crazy high water pressure, so doing without a regulator is not an option. So I climb up in the cab and off to the office we go. They have a small camp store and I am able to secure a replacement regulator. Get back and reconnect it all and we have water.....boy do we have water.
I open the bathroom door to step in and use the potty and there is a big big puddle on the floor. Hold on a minute, camping world fixed the leak, and it was not leaking yesterday. Well it is leaking now. So I put a towel on the floor to soak up the mess and check the toilet, I mean there are only so many places water can come from. Awesome, it is coming from the area on the rear of the toilet where the valve is popped into a nice plastic box. Ok, let's see if the leak stops....so two hours later have to put a new towel down and wring out the first one. Nope leak has not stopped, well it is almost bed time, I will just shut off the water, problem solved.
Sunday morning I am up way way to early for someone who is on vacation and not getting ready for rope drop. Leaky toilet, let's fix it, after all DW and Reba are still asleep. So I remove the toilet from the floor, take apart the fittings, put a gasket on the only place it looks like one maybe missing and reassemble. Feeling pretty good, this is the first hour of my day and I have accomplished something. So I walk outside and turn the water back on and hold on, we still have a leak. Are you kidding me ?? Alright, it is now time to wash up and make breakfast. I put the towel down to catch the dripping water. So the only thing I can think of is there is a leak in the part itself, but it is Sunday and no place is open. Well every two hours change towels, wring out the soaked one, place it in the sun to dry and repeat. Sunday night when we are done I shut down the water once again.
Monday morning rolls around and a fellow camper is headed to Walmart, Lowes, and there is a RV place very close. So off we go to do some shopping. Oh yes, I need to make a Lowes run also. Sunday afternoon found out that the bolts holding the middle of my fenders on have either come off completely or I am missing the nuts. Great, something else to fix.
Luckily when we arrive at the RV place they have 4 different toilet valves, including the one I need. So once again I am headed back to the trailer to remove the toilet.
After removing the toilet I am able to remove the factory crimp ring and salvage the hose, I install the new part in the toilet and this time we have no leaks. Oh the joy.
Here is a friends set up, they are singled short which makes the truck about the size of a dually pickup. They are from Wisconsin, very nice people.
This fella has a whole battery system in the back cabinet with solar panels. Very neat, not sure I understand all of it.
Kermit is along for the ride..
This Spacecrafter trailer is a bumper pull. There was another that used a pintle hitch on his.
The weather was just perfect the whole time we were there.
The truck on the left is a Super Class C. So there are all kinds of rigs here.
We had to leave on Wednesday and head home, the rally went on thru today (Friday). It is a great meeting of friends who share a love for the same things, coming from a huge variety of backgrounds. I mean there are farmers, nuclear engineers, 747 pilots and more in the group. This was our second year in attendance and we will be headed back next spring.
We have some things we need to get done in the trailer and in the truck, to have them just the way we like. It is a marathon, not a sprint.
DW, Reba and I will now focus on getting ready for the next big trip.....GSP.