As some of you have read, we have never towed anything this large, this is our maiden voyage from Savannah Georgia to New Brunswick Canada. For our last night in Georgia, we dry camped. We woke to find no power in the trailer even though we do have a modest solar set up. We figured that while driving and with the sun, the batteries would be recharged.
We decided to stop after about 60 miles for a snack at a rest stop. When we opened to door, we found the kitchen tap on and water splashing off the sink covers everywhere... Some dumb ********** (me) left the pump on and the cheap faucet came on over the bumpy roads I am sure. Opened both main slides and moped up the water mess with all of our towels. And, still no power. Called a friend and together we found the power switch on the shunt (again why did I not find it earlier, jitters?) and reset it, our problem went away.
We get to Asheville and my wife loses one of her favorite rings I purchased for her years ago.
Sitting here in Shaunton VA having our coffee, we are both chuckling now as the mess has been cleaned up with no apparent lasting damage and her ring was found (yes I even went thru the garbage). We still need to figure out the solar issue but we have decided to do that once we get home.
Oh and yesterday when we left Asheville, within 2 minutes I took a wrong turn. My dear wife had to get out and stop traffic so I could back out onto a busy road so we could turn around
I hope you enjoyed our story, it is a first trip we will not forget.
Oldcow
We decided to stop after about 60 miles for a snack at a rest stop. When we opened to door, we found the kitchen tap on and water splashing off the sink covers everywhere... Some dumb ********** (me) left the pump on and the cheap faucet came on over the bumpy roads I am sure. Opened both main slides and moped up the water mess with all of our towels. And, still no power. Called a friend and together we found the power switch on the shunt (again why did I not find it earlier, jitters?) and reset it, our problem went away.
We get to Asheville and my wife loses one of her favorite rings I purchased for her years ago.
Sitting here in Shaunton VA having our coffee, we are both chuckling now as the mess has been cleaned up with no apparent lasting damage and her ring was found (yes I even went thru the garbage). We still need to figure out the solar issue but we have decided to do that once we get home.
Oh and yesterday when we left Asheville, within 2 minutes I took a wrong turn. My dear wife had to get out and stop traffic so I could back out onto a busy road so we could turn around
I hope you enjoyed our story, it is a first trip we will not forget.
Oldcow