Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Home and thoughts on first trip of the season.

The RV is back to bed. We had to rewinterize because of freezing temps expected this week. In fact we had snow today.

While I enjoyed parts of this trip there were challenges also. The biggest being high winds. We had several days where we just hunkered down in the RV and let it shake and roll. Sleeping was very hard when there was so much movement and noise from the wind. In addition we got bounced off the road onto the shoulder by a passing semi. They passed too close and then got hit by a high wind gust that then caused their air displacement to bounce us off the road. Very scary. Most semis went by hugging the opposite side of the lane so this did not happen.

We also almost got run off by an oncoming pick up truck with trailer that was over the center line on a narrow two lane road.

We had to reroute the end of the trip through Albuquerque due to winds. A fair number of days were driving in the wind which was uncomfortable and stressful.

We narrowly avoided freezing temps a number of times. We had rv antifreeze on board to put in the tanks whenever things looked too close for comfort. Our RV furnace kept the inside toasty but I noticed the volume of air was down, it didn't blow as strongly as it has in the past so that is something we have to trouble shoot. Could be low voltage from the batteries or damaged ductwork. The ductwork is getting very old and brittle.

We also discovered our rear motoraid heater. This was fabulous for heating up the rear of the motorhome before stopping. Because we had never traveled in the cold before we had never used it. For normal driving the dash heat was just fine but that motoraid heater was great to turn on a half hour before stopping and get everything toasty warm.

As usual we loved the motoraid hot water. It is always nice to have hot water when going down the road to wash your hands and to use when you first get to a stop without having to turn on the hot water heater.

The RV had been rewinterized and put back to bed at the storage lot. I don't think I would do a trip at this time of year again. Too much wind!

On a side note we had so many campgrounds with hookups this trip that I got quite spoiled with taking long showers. When you can dump every day or every other day you can shower as long as you want, no conserving water. :-)

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