New to dry camping
We have our first dry camping trip planned for Memorial weekend. Arriving at campsite early evening Friday and leaving early afternoon Monday. We just bought a new Jayco 23B with 48 gals freshwater an...
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pnichols wrote:toedtoes wrote:
I disagree on the "more work". I find dry camping to be extremely easy to setup - turn on propane, light fridge, light water heater, turn on water pump. Done.
RV Park setup - turn on propane, light water heater, turn on water pump, pull out power cord, plug in power cord. That's one more task.
I always use my own fresh water, and don't deal with sewer hoses until I'm going to dump, so that's the same either way.
We drycamp with even less work: The propane is always ON. The refrigerator is turned ON from the beginning of the trip (lit via auto sparker at home - no matches - before starting the trip) and stays ON for the whole trip. The water heater is lit via auto sparker - no matches.
We do turn ON the water pump at each camping spot.
Ooooops I almost forgot .... drycamping usually requires leveling of the motorhome at each camping spot, drycamping requires pushing of a button to start the built-in generator in order to use the microwave or air conditioner, and if camping for more than about 3 days drycamping may require getting out the portable generator and hooking it up to recharge the coach batteries if for some reason we don't want to recharge using the built-in generator or idling of the main engine. ;)
Even at the RV parks I've been to, I've had to level - so that's a wash. No generator, so no work there. Who knew dry camping could be so easy! :B
