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RFOneWatt wrote:
@camperfool - Great point & idea. I'm unemployed right now so our trips this summer are most likely all going to be in Michigan. (Which is fine by me, I've seen more of what's out West than I've seen of my own state, which is actually kind of sad.)
Anyways, I am from the Detroit area but have a summer house near Gaylord, MI and that's where I plan on keeping my trailer parked this year. Our place is about an hour away from the bridge for when we want to take longer trips into the U.P. And for shorter trips around Gaylord, we're right in the middle of TONS & TONS of secluded places off of MILES of two tracks. By parking the trailer up there it would save a few hundred miles of fuel for every trip! (Not having to pull it from my house.)
I feel your pain on the 7 MPG. I think we averaged about 8-9 MPG our whole trip out West last year. We've since upgraded the tow vehicle to a 2010 F250 SuperDuty 6.4 diesel so hopefully we'll be getting a little better mileage from now on. (And certainly the torque to hammer the mountains when we need it, which is actually why we bought it!)
@ReneeG - After the fact I did a bit of research and found that regardless of brand, a gas generator is the best for high altitudes. However, even some Onans, Hondas & Yamaha's have issues when you are playing between 6000-10,000ft. (Unless of course you've made some permanent adjustments) This is for another thread, but if anybody can educate me a bit on the subject I'd really appreciate it. I am using chinese junk @ moment. Although I have zero complaints aside from the altitude issue and the fact that it will most likely die a premature death.. it was CHEAP, has many, many hours on it and still works great. We haven't had a problem with the refrigerator. (yet?)
Here is another spot in Utah we stayed at for three days. Not my favorite but I was tired of driving and we were really in the middle of nowhere.. Didn't see one person the whole time we were there.
The wife took this pic when we stopped and I thought I would give the generator another go. The magic number ended up being 4000ft. :)
Beautiful spot RFOneWatt - love boondocking! We have an F250 V10 and average 9.5 when towing. Oh well, that's where the most expense goes when we travel with TT in tow. We also have a Mister Buddy propane heater - the small single bottle one and it warms up the inside nicely when early winter camping.
