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If you come to this website, you might be wondering what is going on here. Well first off, welcome to my site. It is a collection of stuff about two primary things, our travels in our RV and about my Role-playing Game hobby, which at this point I am attempting to do some stuff while we traveling.
Last 5 Travel Journal Entries
A Working Vacation
Well this last week or so has been a working vacation. We finally started to work on on trailer conversion but did not really get far. The waste plumbing has been hard to pin down.
We did empty out our storage unit. We been able to reduce it a bit and we have a place to keep stuff that will not charge us a monthly fee. The downside is we had to build a storage shed and that took three days. I also fixed a barbwire fence where we are staying, so I guess I got to act like a ranch hand or cowboy for a few hours.
In general, I think we just did not do as much as we thought we would.
Do Not Forget To Track The Propane
We ran out of second bottle of propane the other day. Of course I found out about it only when I went to make hot water for me tea in the morning.
It has been easy to forget how much propane we use. The 5th wheel has two 7 gallon tanks (which are normally called 30 pound tanks for the weight of the propane) and so far since we started this adventure we have filled them each once. So we have only used 14 gallons of propane total when we ran out the other day.
It has been about 165 days since we started. So if we do the math, 14 gallons / 165 days = 0.084848485 or about 0.085 gallons per day. Or to look at it another way 165 days / 14 gallons = 11.785714286 or about 11.8 days per gallon.
Which mean with a new refill of one tank we should have to fill it again in about 82 days. Which means about Jan 25, 2022.
Should be interesting to see if it lasts more or less than that date.
And So It Begins
It was a long weekend. We left Table Top Wilderness Area on Friday afternoon to head to Phoenix. We had a lot to do. We ran some errands that included us stopping for groceries at the Winco at about midnight.
The next day we had to stop and get the parts we ordered at my sister's place. So we had to stuff the two waste holding tanks, a shower pan, and a toilet inside the RV. It is amazing how much space all that stuff takes up. Afterwards we headed out to get food, look for shoes for the wife (she found none), and then finally to Lowe's to look for parts for the trailer conversion. That last one took hours. We also picked up a small storage shed that we had to drop off at the wife's aunt's place. Needless to say that was long day. I we did not make it to the rest stop until I think 930pm. Good thing we picked up some take out.
Finally, Sunday we heading into Casa Grande to finish up the grocery shopping, dump the RV, and to finish look at stuff at Lowe's there. Finally we waited an hour for a take out pizza (seems it was super busy night) before we left for out one and half hour trip to camping spot. Around 8pm we finally stopped for the night.
So super busy weekend. Still, we have some parts so we can start to look at the trailer and finalize plans on where some stuff will be going. We are also going to seal an stain the walls of the trailer this week I think.
Overall, I think the trailer conversion is gong to an interesting project. I am hopeful we will be happy when it is all done. At the very least, we will have made the compromises that we want to it and we should know how to repair just about everything.
October 29 2021
Well we been at Table Top Wilderness Area since Sunday. Its a nice area for winter parking. We will certainly be back here in the future. We did pretty well overall here.
Of course now come the busy part. We have a pretty full weekend. We have many in town stops for a variety times. We also have to stop by my sister's and pick up the parts for the Trailer so we can install plumbing. We will be staying at two overnight spots. One a casino parking area and the other a rest stop.
I find the rest stops really useful. While not the quietest of places, they are a good choice for a quick overnight stop. The only downside is if they are really busy, you may not find a spot. We have had that happen at least once, but usually we find something.
Of course after this weekend, we have to begin working on the trailer. There are so many parts still to by. I will get more into that later.
October 18, 2021
It has been a few weeks since my last post. It has been a very busy time for us. So where to begin.
First off we had to go dump and when we camp back to Bloody Basin West, our spot was taken. We tried to go to the other side of the I-17 to find a spot. It was really hard to find spots with signal, so we just hit up one spot that was really close to the road. We stayed single night as we decided to get closer to Phoenix.
We then hit up some BLM land near Black Canyon City for three days. The wife made some trips into Phoenix while I worked. On Thursday, we decided to head to look at a few trailers in the afternoon and pick up the new solar charge controller that ordered off Amazon. We had it shipped to an Amazon Locker for pickup. Needless to say neither trailer we looked at was good for us in the end. The one horse trailer we liked had title issues that the “owner” did not want to really resolve. Since it was late we just stayed at a rest stop for the night.
On Friday morning, we moved over to the wife's aunt's place. The wife went to pick up a enclosed cargo trailer that we thought might be good for the conversion we want to do. It was practically new, so she did and drove it out to a place in south Arizona while I worked.
On Saturday, we did a few things and then drove out with the RV to where the trailer was. We plan on being out here for while as we need to start planning and doing some of the conversion on the trailer.