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Chewbacca
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Just picked up the van.  This thing fucks.    

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I will end fish talk and show off what was delivered to me today. Airstream Basecamp 20X. I put down my deposit at the end of July.

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I've been trying to find an excuse to buy a travel trailer for the last couple years, but kept talking myself out of it. Then a good travel job came up so I got off my ass and bought one. Then loaded

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Apparently we are taking every kitchen utensil with us for a 48 hour trip in which I’d be happy to not cook a single thing. 

48 hours? That is when you cook double batches of a few things in the 10 days before the trip, freeze them, and just reheat for meals.

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Apparently we are taking every kitchen utensil with us for a 48 hour trip in which I’d be happy to not cook a single thing. 

had sex. don't care.  <-- that should be your answer.  you have work to do.

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[mention]Pato del Muerto [/mention] we need a furnace repair, kitchen utensil, and recreational activities report soon...

Furnace:  rv repair place was closed when I stopped bu, likely because it was lunch hour. So no repairs yet. 
kitchen:  I grilled hot dogs and burgers so most of it was useless.  Corkscrew did get use though. 
activities...all boxes checked. 
Here’s a couple more pics. The mrs has more, as does my new friend that works for cough/yeezy/cough. The ranch pic is just because it reminds me of the Dutton Ranch from Yellowstone. 

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Good times, those hammocks need folks in them, that’s one thing we didn’t take but not for a lack of trying no one had any a month plus ago. 
 

can you imagine landing and lacking a corkscrew the panic, always manage to push the cork in but that moment when you realize you really have to work for it, such a shitty feeling. 

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18 minutes ago, troph said:

Good times, those hammocks need folks in them, that’s one thing we didn’t take but not for a lack of trying no one had any a month plus ago. 
 

can you imagine landing and lacking a corkscrew the panic, always manage to push the cork in but that moment when you realize you really have to work for it, such a shitty feeling. 

Watch a YouTube vid on using a shoe and fluid dynamics to push a cork out. And there’s always breaking the bottle at the neck.  

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2 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

Do you people not carry a saber?

No shit, that's pretty much RV 101.

We'll be in Garner for a couple weeks starting next week, I'll post some RV/campsite pics if I'm not too drunk to...

 

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9 hours ago, utee94 said:

No shit, that's pretty much RV 101.

We'll be in Garner for a couple weeks starting next week, I'll post some RV/campsite pics if I'm not too drunk to...

 

Kids and I headed to Choke Canyon third week in July - renting a 25' rig to get us away for a few days. Fishing, hiking, fires, and late bedtimes. Wife is staying home (work) but the in laws are joining us.

Whole family is going to Red River in August to get out of the heat. Renting about a 34' rig (and borrowing a buddy's F-250 to pull it), really looking forward to small mountain town stuff.

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Any long screw, ideally a 3” drywall and visegrips.  

That’s a good idea. I’ve got a box of long screws in my power drill bag for some reason.

Speaking of items to take - given wulaw’s experience we are taking an assortment of screws and an ez-out drill bit set.
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August 1-15 (+/-), we are thinking national forest dispersed camping in the San Juan National Forest. Telluride and Silverton the main day trips for towns but we will try and hit up Ouray too. All first NF sites are first come first serve. So we have some hipcamp private campsites in our back pocket. US 550 appears to be our primary road up and down. Still looking for the best route to telluride and considering stops for dispersed camping. Hoping to hit up the mining history in Silverton and maybe a day trip to the Cliff Dwellings near Mesa Verde NP but that looks like a long ass drive from Silverton. Located Sultan Campgrounds in the SJNF as one spot still looking for others. Water for fishing is always needed.

 

Input welcome and appreciated.

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August 1-15 (+/-), we are thinking national forest dispersed camping in the San Juan National Forest. Telluride and Silverton the main day trips for towns but we will try and hit up Ouray too. All first NF sites are first come first serve. So we have some hipcamp private campsites in our back pocket. US 550 appears to be our primary road up and down. Still looking for the best route to telluride and considering stops for dispersed camping. Hoping to hit up the mining history in Silverton and maybe a day trip to the Cliff Dwellings near Mesa Verde NP but that looks like a long ass drive from Silverton. Located Sultan Campgrounds in the SJNF as one spot still looking for others. Water for fishing is always needed.
 
Input welcome and appreciated.
There's only one way in and out of Telluride.
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If you want a day trip to Mesa verde I’d stay around Durango/purgatory. Could also do the train to silverton (take the bus back, one way on the train is plenty)

Then move on to telluride. The bus will give you an idea of the road you will be towing through

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Plugged in to a 30 A outlet at a site this week and immediately tripped the breaker, so apparently I have a short somewhere. Not sure if I can chase that down myself. 

So what happened after the breaker (I'm assuming on the site power pedestal) tripped?  Did you ever get it working again? Go without power for the weekend?   Did you try power at another site?  It could be an old, weak breaker on the pole.

One way to initially troubleshoot without a voltmeter is to manually trip all the breakers in the trailer and see if the pedestal breaker stays live after plugging in the trailer.  If not, you have an issue between the trailer breaker panel and the pedestal in your shore power cable and connections.  If it still stays live, turn on one trailer breaker at a time in the trailer until you find the branch circuit that has issues.  This isn't the best way to troubleshoot but without a meter its about the only way to figure out what is wrong.

 

 

 

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that's what we did when we had trouble boon docking last trip.  our generators kept tripping, we thought it something in the trailer, ended up being a faulty generator we think because all systems go on 50amp (we since replaced both generators via a warranty claim).  but to manage in the field, we went without the GFCI circuit, microwave and AC.  that's a ton of the electrical for sure but with one generator to limp along we had to find what we could and couldn't power.  maybe a different issue for you, but we did isolate in a way david is saying and it limped until we could get to full power.  probably an irrelevant story, I just want to add something about our trials and tribs with power.    

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4 hours ago, davidg said:

So what happened after the breaker (I'm assuming on the site power pedestal) tripped?  Did you ever get it working again? Go without power for the weekend?   Did you try power at another site?  It could be an old, weak breaker on the pole.

One way to initially troubleshoot without a voltmeter is to manually trip all the breakers in the trailer and see if the pedestal breaker stays live after plugging in the trailer.  If not, you have an issue between the trailer breaker panel and the pedestal in your shore power cable and connections.  If it still stays live, turn on one trailer breaker at a time in the trailer until you find the branch circuit that has issues.  This isn't the best way to troubleshoot but without a meter its about the only way to figure out what is wrong.

 

 

 

First night it worked with just the water heater breaker off. Then it tripped again and won’t stay on with any of them (there’s 5) on.  
 

***posting from here on a day trip to GTNP, lunch break***

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I’m back at the camper. I grabbed the 30-20 adapter and plugged it into the 20A outlet. Things are working as intended as long as I don’t turn the water heater or a/c on. 
this is the first and only 30 I’ve used and I don’t have one at home.  Maybe it is the tower?

maybe as I’m leaving tomorrow I’ll find an empty spot and plug in real quick and see what happens. 

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16 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I’m back at the camper. I grabbed the 30-20 adapter and plugged it into the 20A outlet. Things are working as intended as long as I don’t turn the water heater or a/c on. 
this is the first and only 30 I’ve used and I don’t have one at home.  Maybe it is the tower?

maybe as I’m leaving tomorrow I’ll find an empty spot and plug in real quick and see what happens. 

Is your onboard battery charging?  A lot of your trailer systems take 12VDC even when running on propane.  Don’t want to run down the battery and lose refrigeration or ability to run electric jacks if you have them

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12 minutes ago, davidg said:

Is your onboard battery charging?  A lot of your trailer systems take 12VDC even when running on propane.  Don’t want to run down the battery and lose refrigeration or ability to run electric jacks if you have them

Fridge doesn’t run on dc, and is not giving a fault now on electric mode. So there’s ac power flowing. Ac outlets are working 

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23 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Fridge doesn’t run on dc, and is not giving a fault now on electric mode. So there’s ac power flowing. Ac outlets are working 

Even if your fridge is only a 2 way power ( runs on either AC or propane) it might take battery power to run a controller or relay.  A lot of the fridges, when running on propane, Need dc power for control via a charged up battery.  Furnace blower is the same way when running on propane.

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Update update:  on my way out of camp, I pulled into another electrified spot and plugged in to the 30. No trip. Turned on water heater, no trip. 
So just bad luck with a bad tower?

Probably a weak breaker.  It happens.  Do you have a surge protector or energy management system that plugs between the pedestal and your shore power cable?  Some of them have diagnostics that can tell you if the pedestal is having issues.

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19 minutes ago, davidg said:

Probably a weak breaker.  It happens.  Do you have a surge protector or energy management system that plugs between the pedestal and your shore power cable?  Some of them have diagnostics that can tell you if the pedestal is having issues.

Nope. Will shop for one now, along with a 30 to 50 bone. 

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we had that happen at that overnight city park in Dumas (great *free* spot to hook up and sleep for the night on the way to CO), power was jacked up, breakers flipping.  bad power supply.

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Buddy just picked up this one a few months back. Was just a year or so old but owner was upgrading to full size bus/motor home. Said he basically payed half price because the depreciation off the lot is massive. We used it during our Fantasy football draft. Got to say it is pretty damn nice.  He has rented it a few times and said it went great.  So far so good 
 

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This one coming to market soon. Buddy’s wife finally decided was like a prison with three little ones. Now shifting to a boat. Will post add when listed in about a month. 

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This one coming to market soon. Buddy’s wife finally decided was like a prison with three little ones. Now shifting to a boat. Will post add when listed in about a month. 


Shoulda bought a sex tent and everything would be fine.
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Also, been shit and pissed in when driven to California by local celebrity. Truly a collectors item. 

At first I figured “not in the toilet” because entitled people so shitty things - then I thought no that’s not what he meant - then I thought celebs do shitty things so maybe.
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