Incidental to RV life

 Pic of the day;

 

Our present coach is 36 ft. with three slide outs.  This is a Gasoline Winnebago.

 For today:

Many years ago when close to retirement we met out first ‘Full-time’ RV’ers.  Someone who sold their home, bought an RV and set out to see the USA.  That planted a seed.  We have always enjoyed camping and travel. I was in the building business and Sherry was working for the US Army as a civilian in the Recruit processing area.  When she reached enough time to retire I had bought a large track of land and was planning a sub division, to get into the big time (for me) construction. I was finding out it was hard to deal with the city without an attorney and was getting a little disgusted.

My girl came up with a great idea, why don’t you quit when I retire and let’s hit the road. We bought a giant 45' storage trailer. and stored our tools and stuff that we couldn’t sale or give away. We hired a guy to move the big trailer to the woods on the property where I had planned the subdivision. When our house did not sale fast, we turned it over to a property manager to rent out, and we hit the road.

We lived in three big motor homes over 20 years seeing this country, never selling our house.

All that was said to explain that to live comfortably in an RV you need to pick your sites.  You need electric, water and sewer for comfort. At times that is not available. The RV is self-contained, and we can go at the longest 2 weeks without hookups. But ideally, we like to have all the amenities, called 'full hookups.'

This site in Lancaster does not have sewer, so we have a Blue-barrel. I empty the internal tanks every few days and go to the ‘Dump-station’.  

 Picture shows our blue barrel container beside the coach. I hook our storage tanks to the barrel by a 3" hose and fill it with our waste. We have a Grey tank and Black tank. the Grey tank is sink and bath water. Black is the sewer. Tanks are separate; about 50 gallons each.

This picture shows the barrel hooked to my trailer hitch. I tow it very slowly to a dump station. The facility has a hose to clean the tank before heading back for another load.  Usually run two trips each time since I am not busy with anything else.

Many RV'ers have never did this. But we have 'dry camped' with no connections for a couple weeks. In the desert and in Alaska. A challenge we do not mind.

Nite Shipslog

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