Jim 2011
Novice
While on the road home with Nepenthe we stopped at a Walmart in South Dakota to pick up a couple of things including a small clock. Found what we wanted but right next to the clocks was this little Inside/Outside temperature monitor. It is quite small and has a little "sensor box" that you mount somewhere outside to give you the outside temperature. It only cost $10 so I bought it. I walked around the trailer a couple of times trying to decide where the best place to put it was and, because we had just gotten off a very rough washboard dusty dirt road in the Badlands decided that since it only came with that double sided sticky tape that the small "outside" compartment would be better than sticking it to the frame or somewhere underneath the trailer. I say small outside compartment because we have the heater option and that takes up 95% of the "outside" storage. So I calmly mounted the thermometer to the front wooden wall of the little compartment and sure enough, the monitor was showing both inside and outside temperatures. Pretty neat. We woke up very early in the morning to the sound of rain as well as the sound of my teeth chattering. Remember that cold front that swept across the country a couple of weeks ago? We we were right in the middle of while camped near Mt. Rushmore. My new trusty temperature monitor said it was 50 something in the cabin and 36 degrees outside. So we reached up and turned on the heater. Needless to say the outside temperature appeared to climb rapidly. Faster than in the cabin I might add. As an added note, we were not prepared for that kind of cold and wet weather. Getting the wet side tent down and everything buttoned up when you have lost all communication with your fingers adds greatly to the time it takes. We live just north of San Diego where there are only two seasons, Daytime and Nighttime. Still looking for a better place to put the temperature gauge.
