This will be a shorter post than normal. I am writing it on my old Palm Centro phone, which I carry as a PDA on trips. We are driving home from a trip. We planned on staying 2 more days so I planned to write today’s post on my laptop tonight & then post it, both in our RV, which technically I am doing, but I am writing while riding at 65 mph on the Pennsylvania Turnpike! (Obviously husband is driving,) From this we learn in terms of organizing, not to put things off to the last minute.
Everything on our trips takes organizing, even more than at home. Going home 2 days early (on a 4 night trip) changes lots of plans. We carry at the start of a trip 25 gallons of water with us in 2 tanks, We know from experience that we can easily get by on same if we conserve water for 4 nights. We learned on a recent trip that if we are very careful, we can make it through 5 nights. Now on the other hand, we need to fill the outgoing tanks at least 75% or they will not dump properly. See the organization needed to manage the water. Uh oh!!!
Back again, drive needed my attention. Road construction & the cones were in our lane making it rather narrow. About 10% of them were knocked down by vehicles ahead of us. Glad we are not in an 18 wheeler. Needed to help husband avoid them.
So since we used so little water as we expected to need it to be used over 4 nights, we had to add enough water - gallons and gallons - to the outgoing tanks so each had enough to dump them before we did so.
This was our last trip of the year with running water. We will be winterizing the RV soon so that there will be as close to no water in its systems as possible so there will be no damage from water freezing in pipes, valves, tanks, etc. If we travel again this year we will get a space near the bath house. But that is a story for another time.
We had a problem this trip with our refrigerator. It is a small one about the size of a dorm fridge. It is different than same, however, as it can run on regular household current or 12 volt car battery current - it switches on its own. It is harder to keep it at the correct temperature than the refrigerator in the house. It is affected more by the temperature outside, as well as also by the temperature in the RV. I can usually get it to the range I want - about 38 or 39 degrees Fahrenheit and then I work at keeping it at same. Sometimes it behaves and stays in range, other times it can take days of playing with it until it is correct - and even then it can need an adjustment. I have been known to jump into the back to play with it when stop for gas if it is going too far off.
This time it was going too low. I raised the temperature and it was too high and would not get lower no matter how low I turned the thermostat in the fridge. We have an electronic thermometer which reads the temperature in the fridge and sends it to a device outside the fridge so we don’t have to open it to read it. I also have a mechanical thermometer in it. When I looked at same it was about the correct temperature. The problem was the electronic thermometer, not the fridge - good thing as it is much cheaper and easier to buy a new thermometer. We took out the batteries and played with it and eventually it was working, seemingly, correct again. We will have to keep an eye on it. Thank goodness I had kept the original mechanical thermometer in the fridge just in case.
Please remember if you are in the US where there is daylight savings time to "fall back" an hour this Sunday (Nov. 6) and VOTE TUES - whether you vote for the same candidate as me or not - Vote!
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