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Over the past 18 months we have spent a few hundred dollars (not including the $115 we spent on Hyper Vent padding, which helped with the problem I am about to share and cabin condensation in general), not to mention a fair amount of time and effort, in the attempt to solve an intermittent...

We will shortly be on our third AGM battery. The death of the first was covered in our $500 Breakaway Cable post (clearly our own fault). The second was a combination of lots of hard use, plus a blown fuse on the charge line from our van's battery, which meant we had prolonged periods over a...

Yeah, the short answer with solar power for the Dometic is that this is clearly a case where more is better. Though I'm not sure that a single large panel means you wouldn't have to re-orient the panels as often. It has the potential to recharge the battery faster, but it can still only put...

Great thought! I suspect the main issue to be overcome is rainy conditions. Virtually anything you put on the jacks is likely to get washed out over time. Some lubes might last longer than others, but I will never be the person to volunteer to do that analysis. But newer chain lubes (which...

It has only taken me this long to reply because I've been waiting for the right combination of available time and decent weather before crawling back under the camper. I hadn't realized that the jack screw exits from both ends (some models are fixed on one end, and I wasn't sure if Camp Inn had...

If you want more power, why not go with two 100 watt Chinese flexible panels - two are half the cost of one glass panel, and are less than a quarter of the weight (and by the time they wear out, you'll want the latest and greatest improved version anyway). Point one to the SE and one to the SW...

Believe me, by the time we leave a campsite, our dog has assured that it is spotless within the radius of her lead. She will have devoured anything remotely edible that was left behind by others (we don't like it, but it is hard to stop her). After two years on the road, she has never had any...

Excellent write-up! I would like to make one addition: As Rotus8 points out, the jack only threads through the rearmost part of the scissor. If it has been a while since the jack has been lowered: before lowering it, spray some WD-40 or lock lubricant onto the rearmost part of the screw...

The general consensus is that 100 watts would pretty much be a minimum to keep the Dometic fed.

An update to our original post: After more than six months of daily use we noticed that the topmost screw of the rearmost table attachment on the camper was starting to work its way loose a little. The topmost screw of the other attachment we had replaced with a 2" bolt, so it was unphased by...

I thought I'd pass along that we've been using Pine Mountain's new Extremestart fire starters for the past couple of weeks, and we are very impressed. They have worked with damp wood and in very windy conditions, and they work far better than the more common Zip firestarters that we have tried...

The same thing happened to us about a year ago. We've always just had one credit card and one debit card. The CC had been VISA, but our bank switched to Mastercard with the replacement card. We also got an American Express card - better cash back on gas (which is where our card number was...

OK, now I'm feeling bummed that we missed our 531 night "anniversary!" (Yet glad that we don't track nights with that sort of precision...) But every night out camping is worth celebrating (unless the weather really sucks)!

Thanks! That is probably what we saw when we were shopping at JoAnn's. To us it looked like the existing liner (I don't recall seeing any that wasn't a blackout fabric), so we weren't sure that making curtains with that would be an improvement. I suspect in another five years we will be in...

Hi Bear! Do you have a link to the blackout material? We had contemplated replacing the curtains, but couldn't find liners other than like what comes with the camper (unless we wanted to buy a full bolt). I doubt if we'll run out and change curtains any time soon, but it might be a project...

Who's camping? Isn't it RVing when you tow your house to the campground? ;-)

I think I may have seen this simple tip elsewhere on the forum, but if so, I suspect it is buried pretty deep by now. There are plenty of times when there is sufficient artificial light to negatively affect our sleeping. Most private campgrounds are lit up like car dealerships, camping in...

As others have commented on this forum, the closed galley can get scorching hot in the summer, especially if you are using a Dometic refrigerator. And if you are using an ice chest, the heat inside the closed hatch will mean more frequent trips to the local store in search of fresh ice...

Here are pictures of the above changes, taken once we were able to set up in the wild. We decided it was close enough and that no additional changes were needed.

I thought I would provide an update to our awning failure - the wind splintered a fiberglass pole, so we repaired it with electrical tape, then applied two 1/2" aluminum sleeves (rather than just one long sleeve, in order to give it more ability to flex). I had intended to provide a photo of...