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On the way back from our Big Bend trip last week, we had no choice but to drive through the frigid temps in central TX and AR, and no chance of winterizing before doing so. Our solution was to run the furnace while travelling, which probably isn't advisable but did the trick for the curbside plumbing nonetheless, with the exception of the bath drain traps which began to freeze but fortunately didn't freeze solid. Had I propped open the bath door somehow, that probably wouldn't have happened. Our Truma is throwing a high current error code when on eco mode, so we had to drain that, but that's an easy step. I'll have to get Oliver to check that out - not thrilled at the idea that we might need our third Truma in two trips. The street side back corner is definitely the trouble spot. We drained the outside shower hose and water ports, but the mixer valve on the shower froze, and there was enough residual water in the intake ports to collect at the bottom with a little plug of ice in each that had to be melted down before we could winterize once back home. Sticking our Vornado heater in the basement for a few hours unfroze those lines no problem. I had Oliver install a 120 in the basement for a little marine compartment heater, for just this reason - unfortunately, that's still something on the list to buy. But I think a better solution, or at least a good supplement, will be to vent that whole area to the furnace side. I'm going to get three decent sized return air vents from Lowes and install one on each of the divider walls in the basement. That should get some heat from the furnace into the basement and then through to the outside shower connection. Then I'll install one on the floor over the water inlet lines to allow some heat down there. I probably won't get a ton of airflow, but it's a cheap and easy mod and any warm air is better than none. I can run the compartment heater when plugged in, or off the inverter in a pinch, and that should really heat up that whole space.

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Ditto ditto ditto. Please permanently do away with it or put it at the bottom of the screen. It takes up TOO MUCH SPACE on the side of a phone screen.

We were at the Bristlecone Pines campground in CA at about 8,500 ft. Got all set up late in the day and I got a campfire going. Then it started to snow. Beautiful. I sat outside in the snow and just marveled at the quiet and the beauty. Poking at the fire and moving closer to stay warm. A libation offered some distraction from the gathering cold and darkness. Liye decided to move inside. Eventually, I moved in too. But looked out the window at the orange glow and fog of snowflakes. Again, totally quiet and we were the only ones there. Miles from anywhere and anyone. The heater clicked on and off during the night and as I noticed it, I also noticed how snug we were. Snow makes the dark forest even quieter. Morning brought the chance to see how much snow we got and start a new adventure going on up to the 10,000 ft level to marvel at the 5,000 year old trees. Bristlecone Pines. One of my favorite places. Through coring and other tree ring methods we can look back 12,000 years with a recorded history. All of this from trees growing in a dolomite soil that was previously a sea bottom. Now, that ancient "sea bottom" is at 10,000 ft elevation. Such are the wonders of the Sierra Nevada Range and plate tectonics. Fun to ponder on a quiet night, camped in the snow with a warm fire crackling. The idea is to lean into it, experience it, marvel at what it is. Try to grasp the enormous amount of time that has passed to form this scene. Living trees that I can reach out and touch, that were alive when the pyramids were being built. But more than that, soil that formed as a sea bed and is now here! Without our beautiful little trailer, we could never come here and have a comfortable winter visit.