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Got the motorhome out of storage last week. That in itself should have been a wakeup call in that the temperature was only 10*F. We took a couple days to check out all the systems and pack up for a short trip. We headed west Sunday morning with the temperature at a balmy -8*F and a 25-mph wind out of the northwest. Five hours later and 45 gallons of fuel lighter we arrived at our destination of Forest City IA. By now the temperature is up to a whopping 9*F, but not for long. By sundown it was down to 0*F and bottomed out at -7*F by 3:30 am when I took the dogs out. Fortunately, by the time the temperature reached its low point for the day the wind was down to 10 mph.
This morning at 7:00 am I trudged into the Winnebago factory service center to tell them my AC wasn't working. After they got done laughing at me and telling me to just open the windows they settled down and found the paperwork for the appointment I made back in September of last year. We spent the day in the luxury of the service center waiting room. The few times we did venture out the wind was all but calm and the temperature ad risen nearly to double digits. For entertainment we read the new product brochures and listened to stories of woe from other customers. We dined on gourmet burgers and onion rings from the local A&W.
This afternoon about 2:30 pm we were told our coach was finished and being driven out of the shop for inspection and delivery. As it turned out the old unit was beyond repair, so it was replaced with a new unit. While we weren't actually able to test it we have enough confidence in the technicians and service department that the new one will perform as expected when needed.
It was a little too late to begin the trek home so we're staying another night in the luxurious parking lot of the service center. Tomorrow we'll head back home to face supposedly 40+ degree weather for a couple days. That should be just warm enough to flush all the tanks and wash off the tons of salt without freezing to death. Then it's back to storage until we figure out when we can get in some real vacation time someplace where it's a minimum of 65* warmer.
Is this the typical RV "vacation" or am I missing something?
This morning at 7:00 am I trudged into the Winnebago factory service center to tell them my AC wasn't working. After they got done laughing at me and telling me to just open the windows they settled down and found the paperwork for the appointment I made back in September of last year. We spent the day in the luxury of the service center waiting room. The few times we did venture out the wind was all but calm and the temperature ad risen nearly to double digits. For entertainment we read the new product brochures and listened to stories of woe from other customers. We dined on gourmet burgers and onion rings from the local A&W.
This afternoon about 2:30 pm we were told our coach was finished and being driven out of the shop for inspection and delivery. As it turned out the old unit was beyond repair, so it was replaced with a new unit. While we weren't actually able to test it we have enough confidence in the technicians and service department that the new one will perform as expected when needed.
It was a little too late to begin the trek home so we're staying another night in the luxurious parking lot of the service center. Tomorrow we'll head back home to face supposedly 40+ degree weather for a couple days. That should be just warm enough to flush all the tanks and wash off the tons of salt without freezing to death. Then it's back to storage until we figure out when we can get in some real vacation time someplace where it's a minimum of 65* warmer.
Is this the typical RV "vacation" or am I missing something?
Now it really helped us both being short as I know a 6’+ would not be comfortable. I called it the aluminum pup tent. I was a backpacker for decades so having a big motor home in the boonies always seemed sacrilegious. But the ol hamcan would go anywhere we had the guts to go with the 4x4 as it had as good ground clearance as the truck. It was fantastic for anything below 50f, but was way too warm otherwise. The longest we went with it was up to Portland OR for 2wk. We never had to eat out as the chuckwagon in the back was just as handy as a shirt pocket. Pull out the lawn chairs, open the hood, and either fire up the Coleman stove or the hibachi and good to go. Cooking outside is the only way to go IMHO. My SO has a backpacker sensibility but neither the gear nor the stamina so the hamcan was the perfect lo buck alternative. But when we moved here to paradise we no longer had the drive to go elsewhere so the hamcan had to go, along with the 4x4.
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