Congrats on your new purchase! We've had our 5er for exactly 4 weeks now after a lifetime of travel trailers. We've experienced a really big learning curve, it made me feel like a total RV "newbie" having to learn everything a different way now. But things are finally settling down, and really beginning to enjoy it now. We're going to keep using it at "camp driveway" until it just gets too costly to maintain heat (probably by January we'll move back in the house).
If there is a single lesson I've learned with the transition from the Travel Trailer world to the 5er world, that would be:
"Don't expect to get-it-all immediately!" Everything about the 5er is different than any of my former Travel Trailers. Oh, some things are the same, like using the awning, flushing the toilet, running the shower. But after that, there's lots of things different, like towing, backing, leveling, hitching, and using all the controls for water hook-up and such.
It's easy to say this now, "Don't expect to get-it-all immediately!" But I didn't understand my own lesson to learn a month ago either, and probably wouldn't have listened to any one either tell me that. I wanted to know it all and I wanted to know it all RIGHT NOW! Well, it didn't work out that way.
Actually, I'm still learning how this puppy works. Actually, last Sunday I took the 5er out to a parking lot and practiced backing into a simulated campsite just so I could get a better understanding where that pivot point really is. Then I practiced backing in on the blind side.
I'll be winterizing, probably tonight, so this will be another new adventure and learning curve, trying to figure out how to do it with this camper, which operates the water system far different than my previous campers.
Learning, learning, learning. It will go on for a while!
Enjoy your new purchase! Have fun! And be patient! You'll figure it all out eventually.
Congrats!
