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Re: If You’re Housebound, Take Your House with You!
Thanks so much for your replies and comments. Being healthy, touch wood, I've been a little ignorant to how many folks are utilizing the RV to help themselves do things that may be much harder using other methods of travel. George has helped open my eyes a little. I now look around the park in a new way. One more great thing to love about RVing. I saw a cool scooter setup a few weeks ago on the back of a fiver. It was platform weldeded to the back holding a scooter. With the aid of a cordless drill it could be raised and lowered easily and the scooter driven off. It even had a plastic cover to keep the weather off. Best regards, Ray394Views0likes0CommentsIf You’re Housebound, Take Your House with You!
If You’re Housebound, Take Your House with You! That's the new mantra of George and his wife. She has been ill and housebound for quite a while but I am pleased to say they are back out there RVing again. My wife and I feel so happy to have been an inspiration. I wanted him to share his story with others and asked if he would do a guest posting on my blog. He was kind enough to agree. George wrote: Well, summer is about over and my wife and I have had the best summer that we have had in a very long time. Through Ray’s and his wife, Anne’s, inspiration we overruled our pragmatic arguments to the contrary and bought a motorhome. By sharing our story, we hope it might inspire others like us; others with debilitating conditions, that there is an option to being housebound. Before my wife became ill we spent most of our free time engaged in activities centered around camping: backpacking, fishing, white-water and lake canoeing, water skiing, snow skiing, etc. In fact the first three months of marriage was spent in a 17 foot camp trailer in the woods at Forest Glen, CA. We often tent camped but our greatest fun was had with a ’66 Chevy 4-wheel drive pickup that had utility boxes on the sides and a 6000 pound dead-lift Braden PTO winch on the front. I added a camper shell that we fixed up to be semi-self-contained. We could go anywhere with it, and did. Even though we used small camp trailers occasionally, our comfort zone was a little more on the Spartan side. I mention that because when my wife became suddenly ill 23 years ago with a complicated auto-immune disorder that manifested itself with a syndrome of symptoms that includes multiple types of extreme pain, and total cellular exhaustion, as well as, easily triggered asthma and allergies. Suffice for me to say she is totally housebound. Obviously, our camping days ended some time ago to our great sadness. I mention all this because I think others will be able relate to our situation. Link to full blog posting with photos - If You’re Housebound, Take Your House with You! Cheers Ray3.4KViews0likes10CommentsRe: replacing fridge drain hose
I recently pulled my fridge to replace a bad electric element, it's actually pretty easy. maybe took 1/2 hour. Wrote up a blog post detailing it with a short video if anyone is interested in seeing what the procedure entails. My drain hose ended up being cracked way up inside where I could not see it before pull out. Cheers Ray369Views0likes0CommentsReview of the Oceanside RV Resort near Victoria BC
After spending the winter RVing down south we headed back to Vancouver Island and picked a spot to stay for the summer. This year we chose Oceanside RV Resort near Victoria BC. We had stayed here for a week back when we started out as full timers. In fact Oceanside RV was our very first RV Park we visited. It's a beautiful RV Park to stay at near Victoria BC on Vancouver Island. I've written up a full review and posted to my blog Here are a few pics Cheers Ray2KViews0likes3CommentsRe: generator just to charge batteries
bartlettj wrote: ktmrfs wrote: if you have a quality converter that will output 40+ amps, you'll likely find that a 1000-1500W inverter will overload when the batteries are deeply discharged. Converters draw lots more current than one would first guess. As an example, a PD 65A converter draws close to 13A @120V. My advice buy a honda or yamaha 2000W. cost isn't much more than the 1000W, noise level is virtually the same, and you won't risk overloading the generator. If your converter is in the 45A range then a 1500W would probably work. 40A at 12 V is only 480W. Try again. Its the initial surge of current that will over load it, my 2000w genny will sometimes take a few tries when my batteries are deeply discharged.501Views0likes0CommentsRe: Dometic Fridge Won't Run on AC
Ragingbull wrote: I replaced my board several yrs ago with a Dinosaur P-711 due to a propane igniter issue. My son moved into it for about 6 months. As he's out now I'm going through the camper and found that the fridge won't start on AC. When you turn it on, the lights for DC and gas illuminate and it works on them. It won"t try to switch to AC. I checked all the fuses, verified the outlet is working, and checked for loose wiring. Any other things I should check into? I just finished fixing mine,would not work on AC, gas OK, had a open heater element. Did a write up, photos and video of the job for reference. The fridge is a Dometic DM2652. Ray708Views0likes0CommentsRe: generator just to charge batteries
Brett50 wrote: im looking for a small generator just to charge my batteries while in the campgrounds. (we dont use the a/c or microwave) so im looking at the champion 1200/1500 model. does anyone have info on this model? is it quiet enough (to run during gen time) that it wont be annoying to neighbors? reliability? any other brands comparible in the $200.00 price range? Thanks! That model will be too loud and not give out very clean power, its meant for power tools and such, Champion has a 2000w inverter type that is fairly cheap, around 500 bucks. Nice clean power output. I use it for boondocking and charges great and quiet, because of the inverter it can run at low revs on econo mode. The one your looking runs full out all the time. Here is a link to mine in action - Champion review Cheers Ray117Views0likes0Comments
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