The Nomadic Life

[bigbill]

My lovely wife and and I are in negotiations to purchase a three horse living quarters trailer to replace the travel trailer once we get to Wyoming. Many of our trips in the summer involve two trucks and trailers. A horse event is usually a full weekend so we bring the travel trailer. A living quarters with a slide works for us, and we travel with two horses, so the third stall will be my "bike shop." We'll only need one truck and our costs for weekend events will be greatly reduced. We could reduce to my 2020 F250 and our 2018 Ford Escape. Long term, I'd like to find a good used AWD sedan for a daily driver and grocery runs to Cody.

[bigbill]

I got my trailer back from the RV repair place yesterday with a new fresh water tank. I realized something yesterday that maybe many of you have already know, but with the water drains open, changing the angle of the trailer with the jack will help drain more water out of the system. The repair guy says they now leave the tongue high when they're done with work since the batteries are often weak after a week or so, and it's easier on the battery to lower the tongue to the ball than to raise it up. Hooking up my trailer left a big puddle of water in the lot. I'm all good to go for the winter.

[Too Tall]

I hear this alot. Folks realize that the repair place was not kind to their batteries.

I’ll be home just in time to winterize this trailer for the first time. It is not rocket science thank dog.

I’ve got a few winter projects for the new trailer such as creating a slide out shelf for the Ecoflow battery and a weatherproof cable pass thru for starlink. Also, I’m pretty done with 120v outlets located in the dumbest places.