too toad or not to toad that is the question
as a new owner of a 30 ft class c , I have seen some motorhome owner not pulling a toad, just wondering what you do once you park in the campsite? my plan is to go west and see some of the national p...
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Our current trip is at 3500 miles, with another 3000 to go. We have remarked to each other that a toad would have been way more trouble that it would have been worth. We just pull off the road anywhere we want. Any little scenic turnout on the mountain highway, little store, park in town, any gas station, etc. Camped in some small forest CGs and off BLM forest roads. The flip side is we can't take the 4x4 dirt roads for sightseeing and ghost towns around the mountain. We are traveling probably 2 days out of every 3, so that's a big part of the reason the toad would be a drag. ;)
By this point of our ownership, getting ready to move takes almost no effort. We never hook up a water hose or sewer hose. We don't lay out a big "camp": Two lawn chairs, and sometimes the grill. This trip, we did not even bring the DISH stuff. It's summer, after all.
Indoors, we have the a lot of the kitchen and bath stuff well-organized and the often-used things are kept out, at the point of use, in organizers that stay put going down the road. The toaster is velcro'd to the dinette table. Salt, pepper, pens/pencils/scissors, note paper, certain pills sit next to the toaster in a sticky bottomed black plastic tray from Wal-Mart. I built some luan cabinet organizers for dishes and pots and pans. We cut back on some the kitchen stuff. The result is that we don't have to move stuff to get to other stuff. So it's easy to put things away too.
Dirty clothes get put in the laundry bag right away. Bed is straightened when we get dressed. Laptop and tablets stash away easily. Chargers are in the TV cabinet, always plugged in to a power strip with individual switches on the outlets, which is plugged into our inverter. Basically everything has a place that is both accessible and at the same time travel-ready.
It gets easier as you fine tune it.
By this point of our ownership, getting ready to move takes almost no effort. We never hook up a water hose or sewer hose. We don't lay out a big "camp": Two lawn chairs, and sometimes the grill. This trip, we did not even bring the DISH stuff. It's summer, after all.
Indoors, we have the a lot of the kitchen and bath stuff well-organized and the often-used things are kept out, at the point of use, in organizers that stay put going down the road. The toaster is velcro'd to the dinette table. Salt, pepper, pens/pencils/scissors, note paper, certain pills sit next to the toaster in a sticky bottomed black plastic tray from Wal-Mart. I built some luan cabinet organizers for dishes and pots and pans. We cut back on some the kitchen stuff. The result is that we don't have to move stuff to get to other stuff. So it's easy to put things away too.
Dirty clothes get put in the laundry bag right away. Bed is straightened when we get dressed. Laptop and tablets stash away easily. Chargers are in the TV cabinet, always plugged in to a power strip with individual switches on the outlets, which is plugged into our inverter. Basically everything has a place that is both accessible and at the same time travel-ready.
It gets easier as you fine tune it.
