This one I didn't see coming...
unlost dogs
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So of all the misadventures I've had with my new camping trailer, last weekend's was one I could not have possibly foreseen.
Snowing. Inside the camper.
Just to recap, since purchasing this camper in April, I have experienced the following misadventures:
1. Roof leaked. Went to make up the bed, found the pillow and mattress were soaked, with a puddle of rainwater under the bed.
2. 120v-to-12v converter blew which I found out as I was stepping into the shower after a long, hot day running my dogs at an agility trial. I was quite stinky and realllllly looking forward to the shower, but alas, no water when I turned it on. Turns out the water pump runs off the 12v system, which had blown. Good times.
3. Admittedly, this one is a near miss: Drove from Boston to Vermont and shocked my camper-experienced buddy who looked at my tow setup and said, "You drove all the way out here without having your hitch locked?" Why yes, as a matter of fact, I did! Who knew the whole thing could have popped right off the Pathfinder and careeneed merrily down the highway on its own?
(In the interest of time, I won't go into details about damaging the hitch and jacks the first time I backed it down our driveway, the battery being stolen when it was parked, or the nitwit rear-ending my car and damaging the electrical hookup.)
But this weekend really, really took the cake. Ran the a/c for two days as it was pretty warm out, and the unlost dogs must be comfortable at all costs.
By Saturday realized the interior was fairly warm. Turned it off for a while. Turned it back on.
Was opening a beer at the sink and heard a grinding sound, looked up to find snowflakes blowing from the a/c vent, landing on my shoulders. Apparently the whole thing iced up. (It's fine now.)
Tomorrow I'm driving it to Vermont again.
Anybody wanna place a bet that the sewage tank explodes or the awning flies off?
Snowing. Inside the camper.
Just to recap, since purchasing this camper in April, I have experienced the following misadventures:
1. Roof leaked. Went to make up the bed, found the pillow and mattress were soaked, with a puddle of rainwater under the bed.
2. 120v-to-12v converter blew which I found out as I was stepping into the shower after a long, hot day running my dogs at an agility trial. I was quite stinky and realllllly looking forward to the shower, but alas, no water when I turned it on. Turns out the water pump runs off the 12v system, which had blown. Good times.
3. Admittedly, this one is a near miss: Drove from Boston to Vermont and shocked my camper-experienced buddy who looked at my tow setup and said, "You drove all the way out here without having your hitch locked?" Why yes, as a matter of fact, I did! Who knew the whole thing could have popped right off the Pathfinder and careeneed merrily down the highway on its own?
(In the interest of time, I won't go into details about damaging the hitch and jacks the first time I backed it down our driveway, the battery being stolen when it was parked, or the nitwit rear-ending my car and damaging the electrical hookup.)
But this weekend really, really took the cake. Ran the a/c for two days as it was pretty warm out, and the unlost dogs must be comfortable at all costs.
By Saturday realized the interior was fairly warm. Turned it off for a while. Turned it back on.
Was opening a beer at the sink and heard a grinding sound, looked up to find snowflakes blowing from the a/c vent, landing on my shoulders. Apparently the whole thing iced up. (It's fine now.)
Tomorrow I'm driving it to Vermont again.
Anybody wanna place a bet that the sewage tank explodes or the awning flies off?
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I hope you have an adventure that does not involve more problems with the equipment!
Alas, no. And it would have been so great to get a group photo around it before it collapses...
Peace.
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*goes to check on flights to vermont while also arranging to get a camera crew there to document every second of unlost's next misadventure
A tent.
Ooh..we can make an unlost travel package.
I'll chip in a bucket, some soap and a sponge...sounds like she should be used to sponge baths by Christmastime
Good luck UD. Been wondering where you've been lately...apparently you have much bigger things going on in your life than updating the board
Actually my life consists of long stretches of monotony, irregularly interrupted by frantic bursts of random madness.
Tuna sandwich houseguest departed uneventfully after giving us the gift of what I thought was a ukelele, but was actually half of a coconut attached to a length of wood. I was really excited until I realized the strings were in fact elastic string.
*sigh*
Maybe I should hang it up in the camper.
u just can't make this shit up!
And yet she *seems* so normal....
she does? :? :think:
Really? I didnt get that impression at all :think:
Hey, HEY HEY NOW!!!