What to do within the week before 1st trip
Need tips on what we need to do within the week before our 1st trip. Husband just wants to get the trailer out of storage Friday, throw our bags in and leave--I know we'll need more time than that, an...
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Our TT lives at the barn, 400' from the house. I bring it up sometime during the week before a Friday departure. Thursday night the fridge gets turned on.
Bedding and housewares live in the rig year round. Some clothing we have just for camping and lives there, too. This all comes in for laundry and goes straight back out.
Some foodstuffs are shelf-stable and go in at the start of the season, comes out at the end. The only thing we have to pack for the trip is perishable food, and a daypack each for clothes. We give ourselves a day to do all that - Friday morning usually. I work a short day and we try to hit the road by 4 or 5.
First trip of the year is to a state park about 20 miles away, so if something catastrophic goes wrong with the trailer we can abort the trip and be home. If it's something dumb like forgetting a new water filter, etc. we just get it where we are.
Once you have a few trips under your belt, you don't need a checklist anymore. At least we don't, with our system there's just very little to do.
Bedding and housewares live in the rig year round. Some clothing we have just for camping and lives there, too. This all comes in for laundry and goes straight back out.
Some foodstuffs are shelf-stable and go in at the start of the season, comes out at the end. The only thing we have to pack for the trip is perishable food, and a daypack each for clothes. We give ourselves a day to do all that - Friday morning usually. I work a short day and we try to hit the road by 4 or 5.
First trip of the year is to a state park about 20 miles away, so if something catastrophic goes wrong with the trailer we can abort the trip and be home. If it's something dumb like forgetting a new water filter, etc. we just get it where we are.
Once you have a few trips under your belt, you don't need a checklist anymore. At least we don't, with our system there's just very little to do.
