Lessons we've learned over the years
I would be curious to hear from all the veterans on this forum about the (sometimes painful) lessons you've learned over the years of owning a TT. I'll start: I rarely, if EVER, make U-turns w...
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Geeze, I’ve made so many I’ve probably forgotten most of them.
Make sure you hook up your breakaway cable well or you’ll be replacing it in Salt Lake City.
Don’t try to center a crossing skunk in the road, you chains will hit him. Again in Utah.
Watch for big holes in dirt roads at night or your frig door hinges will break and scatter food around your TT. H-m-m, again in Utah.
When skunks play under your PU in Capital Reef NP in Utah don’t disturb them, let them play. No harm done but just a warning.
Don’t leave your camera sit on the PU roof and drive away. The kids scream and holler and it’s distracting. Probably the reason you left it there in the first place. Somewhere in the west.
Check and grease your PU wheel bearing before the trip. Or while your DW visits a chef friend at a resort in Grand Junction and samples pastries you’ll be in the parking lot replacing bearings.
Don’t step out of the truck camper at a stop to take pictures without telling your wife, who’s driving. Didn’t happen to me, I discovered it when I stopped in Yosemite and this fellow knew all the good spots to stand to get the best pictures. He’s been there for hours waiting for her to discover he was gone and figure out where he could have gotten out. To answer your first question, it predated cell phones.
Don’t drive too long and pull off the road to sleep in your PU. Local rif raf may activate your booby trap and scare the bejesus out of themselves and wake you up in a bad humor. Montana.
Don’t take a heavy, wooden PU without brakes over Teton Pass unless you really enjoy no TV brakes and the mother of all adrenalin rushes. Wyoming.
Make sure you have a solid sewer line hookup every time or very fast reflexes.
Make sure you have a solid jack support and the wheels chocked well or be young enough to pick up a 300+# hitch and hold it with one hand while you replace it. Worse, don’t do it twice in a row, it amuses the neighbor boy who is young enough to pick it up. Phoenix.
Don’t spend too much time in Utah or you may be writing one of these lists.:D
Make sure you hook up your breakaway cable well or you’ll be replacing it in Salt Lake City.
Don’t try to center a crossing skunk in the road, you chains will hit him. Again in Utah.
Watch for big holes in dirt roads at night or your frig door hinges will break and scatter food around your TT. H-m-m, again in Utah.
When skunks play under your PU in Capital Reef NP in Utah don’t disturb them, let them play. No harm done but just a warning.
Don’t leave your camera sit on the PU roof and drive away. The kids scream and holler and it’s distracting. Probably the reason you left it there in the first place. Somewhere in the west.
Check and grease your PU wheel bearing before the trip. Or while your DW visits a chef friend at a resort in Grand Junction and samples pastries you’ll be in the parking lot replacing bearings.
Don’t step out of the truck camper at a stop to take pictures without telling your wife, who’s driving. Didn’t happen to me, I discovered it when I stopped in Yosemite and this fellow knew all the good spots to stand to get the best pictures. He’s been there for hours waiting for her to discover he was gone and figure out where he could have gotten out. To answer your first question, it predated cell phones.
Don’t drive too long and pull off the road to sleep in your PU. Local rif raf may activate your booby trap and scare the bejesus out of themselves and wake you up in a bad humor. Montana.
Don’t take a heavy, wooden PU without brakes over Teton Pass unless you really enjoy no TV brakes and the mother of all adrenalin rushes. Wyoming.
Make sure you have a solid sewer line hookup every time or very fast reflexes.
Make sure you have a solid jack support and the wheels chocked well or be young enough to pick up a 300+# hitch and hold it with one hand while you replace it. Worse, don’t do it twice in a row, it amuses the neighbor boy who is young enough to pick it up. Phoenix.
Don’t spend too much time in Utah or you may be writing one of these lists.:D
