Tips for reducing set-up time?

HydroGeo wrote:
Does anyone have any tips to shorten set-up time (besides just pulling into a WalMart parking lot!)? At the end of a day of driving, we usually spend about 1.5 hr setting up, which makes for a very long day. Hubby is very particular about checking the site, making sure power and water work, then we level, put slides out, etc.Then it's either unhook the toad and go out for dinner or microwave some leftovers. Reverse the process in the morning and we spend a lot of time on a travel day not traveling.

when we pull into a CG or park for just the night we park, level (using the HWH levelers) and then extend the slides. while my wife is taking care of the inside stuff I hookup just the elec and cable (if available). since we always travel with a full or nearly full fresh water tank we live off of that for the night instead of hooking up to the water. and I don't bother with the sewer.

I don't unhook the toad unless we're for sure going out to dinner (almost never on a travel day) and unless we're in very early and I plan to be outside to read for a while I don't deploy the awning.

this routine takes no more than 15-min on average.