What was your first newbie moment?

On my first voyage which was a long one. West coast, east coast trip to visit in laws. Made the trip in four days. Not kidding. We were on day 3 and I was tired. Went to fill up at the gas station and hooked a hard right, not realizing I wasn't far enough past the pumps. I rode up on the island curb and ripped off the paper towel dispenser. Ker thud was the noise. Gouged the rear tt compartment door and marker light. Needless to say embarrassing. That was the only problem or issue on the 5400 mile trip. Makes wide right turns is right. Newbie move for sure.

came home from camping and was very tired. tried to drive TT into camping spot beside house and the darn thing wouldn't move. so put it into 4 wheel drive and still wouldn't move, so I used 4 low and it moved and so did the drain spout on the house.

Forgot to look UP and caught a cabinet door in the slide out mechanism. Bent the hinges pretty darn badly.

A re-creation of our first mishap, driving down the interstate the sewer hose decided to try and escape before ever being used!

Now after one year and 10,000 miles we're still discovering new mishaps regularly... luckily they're getting a bit less frequent. When are we not newbies? Never? :S



Lessons from our First 1250 Miles

What was your first newbie moment?

Ahhh the way back machine of the good old days of being a newbie at RV'ing sooooo many years ago!

1. Standing there with the awning instructions in hand trying to get the awning opened the first time!
A VERY nice fellow camper came over and helped me......I knew then and there that I was going to like RV'ing.

2. And of course turning the generator on for the first time and it not powering anything is almost a given right of passage to RV'ing when yet another fellow camper shows you that you have to plug the power cord into an outlet hidden in the cord storage bay! :W

3. Watching the shower floor filling up with water, thinking the drain must be plugged. I.E = learning curve about the gray tank and where the water goes when it is full!

4. Albeit my BEST one is the first little TT I had when I unhooked it on a slight incline without chocks behind the wheels and it started sliding backwards AND down hill from me was a brand new Prevost MH!!

I looked like the scene from Risky Business plastered against my TT trying to stop it just like when Tom Cruise tried to stop the Porsche from going into a pond of water...or at least that's what the rest of the CG said I looked like! :B

Well there was the time I set up in the dark and lowered my tongue down onto the trailer pig tail. Camped on top of it for four days. Had to splice all the wires to get home.

Went for a week using the shower house and heating dish water on the stove, waiting for a warranty appointment for a water heater that didn't seem to be working right, while on our second voyage. Then I found that the kids used the outside shower to wash the dog, and didn't turn off the knobs and only turned off the flow control. The cold water was bypassing the heater and going straight into the hot side of the system through the shower faucet.

Gone camping without matches or any kind of lighter.

Taking a class C diesel from 1987 (Ford) into -4 C (25 f) temperatures and not bothering to plug in the engine block heater.

Pulling it past the corner of the garage and gouging a hole in the side with the garage gutter which was ripped off(2 ft.) Of course it was new, brand new.:M