Lessons we've learned over the years

All of these posts are bringing up painful memories. Someone mentioned the awning arms. When we got our first trailer, we had a heck of a time putting up the awning. So after several semi-disasters, we tried it at home slowly, several times, till we figured it out. Then we printed out a step by step instruction sheet. Then we laminated that sheet and kept it handy. Eventually we did not need the sheet.

Then we got a new trailer with a different awning mechanism and had to start from scratch. But this time, we knew what we did not know, and we knew that we had to figure it out carefully.