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Chucknbob
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Nov 23, 2014

FL for Christmas, are we nuts?

So my wife and I have had a vintage popup for a few years (73 Apache) but we just purchased an 04 Jayco Jay Flight Sport. The previous owner already had it winterized. However, we're getting antsy to try out our new toy, so we're considering taking it from Ohio to Florida for a week.

Here is my question, the owner said she blew out all the lines, drained tanks and water heater, plus put antifreeze in the drains. We will need to de-winterize and then redo it all while we're there. Is this going to be difficult or even possible? If so, how would I go about it?
  • Winterizing is easy the harder part will be finding a place to stay - amusement parks are a madhouse scene at Christmas. We last took the grandkids to Disney in January it was wonderful.
  • We have spent several wonderful Christmas's in FL (Ft. Meyers Beach and the FL-Keys being our favorite)! We have flown, drove, and taken the TT. Just google winterizing the Travel Trailer as there is much info. out there including videos.
  • We did the same thing last year - drove from MI to Gulf Shores for New Years weekend.

    I didn't want to mess with winterizing it myself while traveling, so on the way back we just stopped at an RV dealership in Tennessee and had them winterize it.