Constant breakage. Tiring.
We are on our fourth RV. Every trip is a handyman's dream. I am handy, but this is just getting old. We are on a long trip now with our Sunseeker Class C. It's 3 years old now and we are the firs...
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Set the date on the Wayback Machine to your first RV: a station wagon and a tent. A tool kit may have included a Swiss Army Knife and a Leatherman Tool. The tent needed seam sealer to keep the water out. 60 MPH gusts from a thunderstorm blows it down and bends all the tent poles. The lantern needs new mantles. You replace them and while you are lighting them for the first time, you burn your finger and the glass globe goes flying and smashes. The air mattress has a slow leak that leaves you laying on the hard ground by 4 AM. There were moments, but most of the camping drama was provided by wandering bears, marauding raccoons, thieving crows and a wide variety of critters.
Fast forward three or four decades and several RVs later, the tool kit has gotten substantially larger and may include power tools. I too have declared that I feel like the janitor every time we go rolling down the road. I said that I am done, no more. You know how they say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? I must be certifiable; we're expecting a new motor home to arrive from the factory at the end of the month. My tools are packed and ready to go.
One observation that I might offer is that components that make up the RV that are engineered, designed and purpose built are more durable and trouble free. That is not to say that this is immune from faulty design or poor choice in materials. Most of my repairs are to things that are generic off-the-shelf that are adapted for use.
Comparing tenting to RVs, maybe it is the complexity and number of thing that could possibly go wrong that become time consuming that intrudes on your time better spent elsewhere. However, everyone I know and some people I meet all complain about having to get the tools out, but no one has bailed yet.
Fast forward three or four decades and several RVs later, the tool kit has gotten substantially larger and may include power tools. I too have declared that I feel like the janitor every time we go rolling down the road. I said that I am done, no more. You know how they say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? I must be certifiable; we're expecting a new motor home to arrive from the factory at the end of the month. My tools are packed and ready to go.
One observation that I might offer is that components that make up the RV that are engineered, designed and purpose built are more durable and trouble free. That is not to say that this is immune from faulty design or poor choice in materials. Most of my repairs are to things that are generic off-the-shelf that are adapted for use.
Comparing tenting to RVs, maybe it is the complexity and number of thing that could possibly go wrong that become time consuming that intrudes on your time better spent elsewhere. However, everyone I know and some people I meet all complain about having to get the tools out, but no one has bailed yet.
