Okay, well most of it has been fun and games, but it's also been quite a bit of work figuring stuff out. This is the manual for the RV and all the components:
We've had some problems figuring out the inverter and a couple of things are just bad and don't work at all.
We left Oceano last Friday and I drove us out of the RV park and then from Ventura to Malibu down PCH! Rusty is right that it's easy to drive on the freeway, PCH was a bit challenging. It took me a while to figure out the curves because you sit over the front tires. But once I did the only challenge was taking care of people getting in and out of cars and pedestrians.
Friday was the wedding rehearsal and then the wedding was on Saturday so we were quite busy all weekend. Sunday we cleaned the RV from top to bottom inside. I can't believe how quickly we were done. We got the built in vacuum and I feel really stupid because who needs a frickin' broom when you've got the vacu-suck device of the century. I think it took us all of 30-40 minutes. On Monday morning we got up early because we had an appointment at the dealer to get the RV looked at. They were able to fix a couple of things but our XM antennae and mutli-vision camera system are definitely busted. We could have had them order parts and wait to get it fixed a couple of days but we were not looking forward to staying in a hotel and since we were going to do a factory tour of the facility where our RV was built we decided to wait to have those things that are broken fixed when we hit Red Bay, Alabama in October.
The other thing we're struggling with is the tow dolly. We may end up getting a car we can tow wheels down soon, but we're waiting until we're in South Carolina to decide about that. It's not that towing it is hard, but having to hook it up requires you crawl under the car. Not the most pleasant of tasks especially when the temperature is soaring.
We've been in the Glen Ivy RV Park in Corona since then. The best thing about this RV park is it's a half mile from the Glen Ivy hot springs, which we definitely have been enjoying. Tomorrow we start our eastern trek. Friday night we'll stay in Las Vegas, but only one night. We're prepared to leave the car hooked up and just hang out at the RV park for the night so we can try and get out of the heat as quickly as possible.
I'm still loving this life, but I do have to admit to feeling a bit technically challenged when it comes to some of the problems we've run into. Of course, none of the problems are impossible to figure out, I just miss my free tech support at UCLA!
xoxox
Julie
P.S. Rusty says we need to start including pictures of the RV at our camp sites so I'll start working on that - you aren't missing much at the one we're in right now though. Monthly fees start at $495 so there are a LOT of full timers here and it's mostly hot and dry. And they don't recycle - what's up with that????
We've had some problems figuring out the inverter and a couple of things are just bad and don't work at all.
We left Oceano last Friday and I drove us out of the RV park and then from Ventura to Malibu down PCH! Rusty is right that it's easy to drive on the freeway, PCH was a bit challenging. It took me a while to figure out the curves because you sit over the front tires. But once I did the only challenge was taking care of people getting in and out of cars and pedestrians.
Friday was the wedding rehearsal and then the wedding was on Saturday so we were quite busy all weekend. Sunday we cleaned the RV from top to bottom inside. I can't believe how quickly we were done. We got the built in vacuum and I feel really stupid because who needs a frickin' broom when you've got the vacu-suck device of the century. I think it took us all of 30-40 minutes. On Monday morning we got up early because we had an appointment at the dealer to get the RV looked at. They were able to fix a couple of things but our XM antennae and mutli-vision camera system are definitely busted. We could have had them order parts and wait to get it fixed a couple of days but we were not looking forward to staying in a hotel and since we were going to do a factory tour of the facility where our RV was built we decided to wait to have those things that are broken fixed when we hit Red Bay, Alabama in October.
The other thing we're struggling with is the tow dolly. We may end up getting a car we can tow wheels down soon, but we're waiting until we're in South Carolina to decide about that. It's not that towing it is hard, but having to hook it up requires you crawl under the car. Not the most pleasant of tasks especially when the temperature is soaring.
We've been in the Glen Ivy RV Park in Corona since then. The best thing about this RV park is it's a half mile from the Glen Ivy hot springs, which we definitely have been enjoying. Tomorrow we start our eastern trek. Friday night we'll stay in Las Vegas, but only one night. We're prepared to leave the car hooked up and just hang out at the RV park for the night so we can try and get out of the heat as quickly as possible.
I'm still loving this life, but I do have to admit to feeling a bit technically challenged when it comes to some of the problems we've run into. Of course, none of the problems are impossible to figure out, I just miss my free tech support at UCLA!
xoxox
Julie
P.S. Rusty says we need to start including pictures of the RV at our camp sites so I'll start working on that - you aren't missing much at the one we're in right now though. Monthly fees start at $495 so there are a LOT of full timers here and it's mostly hot and dry. And they don't recycle - what's up with that????
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