What was the biggest flub on a trip?
We always set our items we're loading next to the RV door. On a Thanksgiving trip some years ago, for some inexplicable reason the cooler with the turkey and other refrigerator foods was set on the fr...
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Driving through Palm Springs CA in the summer with loaded truck and heavy trailer. 110 degrees and who knows how hot pavement was…
Checked truck air pressure with alternate air gauge bc could not find my good one. 125 psi (I run 75-80 normally, tires were near end of their lifespan too). "this thing is broken", I kept driving, Had a huge blow-out in AZ. Tore the fender up bad, ripped the fender well liner out.
I guess the gauge was working after all…
Same trip, set coffee pot down on the wide stove grates and it toppled between said wire grates and spilled into my perfect omelet in the frying pan. Tossed omelet to the critters, started over. Made new coffee and omelet. This a much less stressful mistake than the tire.
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I was towing a very small trailer and could not see or feel it behind the TC. The axle broke and one wheel went crooked. A passer-by pointed to trailer and I could see one corner now. I had drug trailer on the bare metal 11 miles. It had worn down to the hub and was un-towable n un-fixable. I was in middle of nowhere. I decided cheaper to just abandon the trailer in the corn field rather than rent a trailer (one way rental) and get it home. No fence between interstate and side road so I drove over grass to side road. Took off license plate, s/n, anything salvageable like the hydro lifts, and put all contents into TC. I hated to leave it back as it was light and home made and perfect for what I needed it for. Probably multiple rules broken that day… I do not confirm this is a true story either or that it was me in it.
Last time I drove by that place trailer was gone.
Checked truck air pressure with alternate air gauge bc could not find my good one. 125 psi (I run 75-80 normally, tires were near end of their lifespan too). "this thing is broken", I kept driving, Had a huge blow-out in AZ. Tore the fender up bad, ripped the fender well liner out.
I guess the gauge was working after all…
Same trip, set coffee pot down on the wide stove grates and it toppled between said wire grates and spilled into my perfect omelet in the frying pan. Tossed omelet to the critters, started over. Made new coffee and omelet. This a much less stressful mistake than the tire.
edit:
I was towing a very small trailer and could not see or feel it behind the TC. The axle broke and one wheel went crooked. A passer-by pointed to trailer and I could see one corner now. I had drug trailer on the bare metal 11 miles. It had worn down to the hub and was un-towable n un-fixable. I was in middle of nowhere. I decided cheaper to just abandon the trailer in the corn field rather than rent a trailer (one way rental) and get it home. No fence between interstate and side road so I drove over grass to side road. Took off license plate, s/n, anything salvageable like the hydro lifts, and put all contents into TC. I hated to leave it back as it was light and home made and perfect for what I needed it for. Probably multiple rules broken that day… I do not confirm this is a true story either or that it was me in it.
Last time I drove by that place trailer was gone.
