If you keep picking at it, it will never heal !!

Well how many times did your mother tell you that one? Did you ever learn? Well, me neither.
I noticed something loose on the trailer (a piece of trim) and I just kept picking at it till it fell off. Oh well, a little liquid nails and it's back in place. Stupid thing should not have been loose in the first place. Of course, I now have to go around and jiggle all the other little pieces to see if they are suffering from that disease too.
We are definitely getting a terminal case of the "wanna travel blues".
We added an Electrical outlet out by the side lot where we park the RV. It is a full 50 amp outlet. Just in case you don't know, you should be impressed by the 50 amp size. Whole houses have been run on less than that. Anyhow it goes underground for about 12 feet. Then up the wall of the house, into the wall , runs the full length of the house then out and down into the main switch.
Have you got the picture in your head yet? The idea is to keep the batteries charged in the RV while it is just sitting there. We can also turn on all the lights, run the slides in and out, and use all the utilities. In other words it can within the limits of the grey and black water tanks, function as a guest house. My thinking is when I find a wad of money on the ground I will have a generator added to the RV. The nice part is when we lose the electricity to the house ( this happens fairly often with tornados, lightening, and high winds in this area) we will just fire up the genny and move into the RV until conditions improve. I could also use the generator to keep certain items in the house like the freezer and fridge. That is assuming I have things wired correctly.
Of course my significant other will definitely have other ideas about what to do with the wad of money. hey, back off... it's a plan right? Sheesh gimme a break! maybe it will be a BIG wad of money..
later dudes.

Seriously delayed ramblings

Well I guess any reader is bright enough to read dates and realize it's been a while since my last posting. We did a last minute initial run in the trailer. Just an overnight to a local state park. However it did show our general level of un-preparedness (is that a word??) to do a longer and further from home trip. A list of screw-ups follows:
1. No propane in the tanks. - my fault for leaving the thermostat and gas on.
2. Took way too long to get underway. I wanted to get there before nightfall so my first experience with leveling the unit, un-hitching, and setting up water, and electrical would not be in the dark. Oops...
3. Too late to get the tanks filled. no place open.
4. Had a problem calling to get a reservation and to make sure the gates would still be open when we got there. Called a friend to do an internet search for a phone number. Then got the dreaded "push 1 for this, push 2 for that" reply.
5. Almost paid the price for doing it in the dark. Came real close to smashing the trailer front with the tailgate.
6. Got pretty close to a divorce over parking and leveling. It wasn't happening fast enough.
7. Slept late and found out check-out time was 1:00 P.M.
8. Didn't get to do much outside.
9. Kissed the tailgate with the hitch hooking back up. No dents.. Dumb Luck.
10. Had a hard time guessing what the brake setting was supposed to be. Lotta bumps and jerks.
11. Learned the hard way that a 5th wheel trailer cuts a little insice of the path the truck makes. Not the same as a pull behind trailer. "hippity hop".
12. Left the steps down while towing. Nice guy pulled along side and told us before we broke something.
13. the dump valves leak a little. So the dump created a new dance step never seen before.
14. The dump hose does not fit in the storage for it. Bummer...that's gonna leave a smell.
15. Learned that you really cannot back one up without someone on the ground watching out for stupid moves on the driver's part. You really need to practice communication skills before doing this. I still have no idea what some of those signals were supposed to convey.
16. Do not put a bag of ice with a leak in the freezer. You end up with a non-removable lump.
17. Dog fell off the doggie ramp after we got home.
18. Drained the trailer pipes as well as possible. Temp went to 20 deg with 5 inches of snow. Barf!

Well, have you quit laughing yet? And a fun time was had by all. Learning continues.