SeaDawg

Welcome to the group, Dan and Ruth! I'm sure you will have a lot of great times with your great trailer. Enjoy!

We applied eze rv gutter to the third tail light, as well, recently.

We've been sharing ideas and recipes here for over a decade. Tonight, in the rain , I did a jambalaya . I prefer campfire cooking,, but, well, if it's raining all day.....

Great choice for your personalized solution. Q☺

If you can get them. Supply chain issues, and all.

Good, thinking, JED When and if we ever run our Houghton ac long enough to get a lot of condensate off the roof, we'll see how our method works.🤔 We also lost the condensate line, with the install. The way we park and jack it at home, the condensate mainly ran off the rear curbside. Camping may be a different story.

We did ours on North Carolina, on our camping property. No way to use a heat gun, as we didn't have 110. That was 8 or 10 years ago. Prep is the key. Get all the dirt and wax off. It was fairly warm though, probably July, as the rhododendron was in bloom. We didn't run them far down the window sides. Instead, we angled the last few inches away from the windows. Don't know if that's better or not, but it has worked so far. Got all the windows in our littler Elite from one roll. Edit to add: it was only 7 years ago. I found my post. Even so, 7 years is pretty good. So far, so good.

@Galway Girl, did you add that pretty two function pull down faucet, or is it standard in the new trailers? We capture and store rainwater, at home. We have a multi-stage filter system, ending with .5 micron to the kitchen only, plus uv treatment. We don't filter water to the toilets as extensively, just down to 5 microns. Our home plumbing is on a branched system, with every run having its own shutoff. RO wastes more water than you get, unless you contrive some kind of fancy recapture system. I bought my mom an Alexapure (big, like a big Berkey), and a small Pur pitcher (with the plus filter) for drinking water and cooking. She actually prefers the water from the Pur, and, so do I. I have a calendar for changing the filters on my phone. The filters are relatively inexpensive, and even though they're a bit wasteful, it's more eco-friendly than bottled water. Like many others, we carry water from home, and on long trips, refill jugs and the tank from trusted sources, only.

Maybe you could try some self-adhesive d-ring patches, made for kayaks and inflatables, and a short length of parachute cord, or stiff shock cord? One on the bottom of the door, one on the side or bottom of the fridge to make a short retaining cord. I think your bubble on the front could be off a bit. (Ours often is.) Sounds like you may be a bit low in front, if the door swings so rapidly toward the entry. A few inches lift on the nose keeps you well within 6 degrees, btw. We do this, too, as others do. We often lift it a tiny bit on the road side, as well. It's all about what makes you (and the fridge) comfortable. The road/port side is where our heads are, sleeping.

Billy, BoB has used the same genset to run his Dometic. Here's his post. Do you have the soft start installed on your ac? We have the same genset, and have used it to charge the batteries, and run some power tools. Tried it with our little Houghton 9500. And it worked fine. Thankfully, we've not needed ac (yet) in the mountains this summer . Or any summer, for that matter. When you were seeing 1500 to 2000, did you still have it in choke, or in run? We don't have your inverter, so I have no idea. Actually, we don't have an inverter at all. We have the progressive dynamics charger/converter, in our older trailer.

I don't have your radio, so I don't know which usb connector works, but you can buy little adaptors on walmart, best buy, or Amazon to convert usb to usbc, etc.

I've taken that a step further, and I look for service/ technical manuals, and print those, too. The hardcopy manuals, stored away, have saved our bacon, in remote sites where we have no internet. Great suggestions, @Townesw

Maybe, just, maybe, you'll get to go to the Yukon. Perhaps even into Alaska, before snow falls. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/07/16/when-canadian-border-open-vaccinated-americans-may-able-enter-cross-august/7992083002/

That's why we have the clamshell drains, underbody. Water, even condensate, has to have a way out. Occasionally, in humid, rainy spring weather, I see drips from the clams. I know they are doing the job. As far as the step, I'm not (yet) worried about drain holes. In use, no issues. Tucked away, folded up, i get some leaf debris , but easy to clear away . Even if I had drain holes, the leaves would stick. John e Davies is correct. Separate aluminum and stainless with a good washer/barrier/product. Stainless bolts are weaker (long run) than steel, but less corrosive with aluminum. Stainless is less likely to react with aluminum than mild steel. Aluminum fasteners are too weak, so forget that choice, imo Always watch for signs.

Others may offer different opinions, but I don't typically worry about different aluminum alloys . My worry is fasteners (stainless) and separation. There should be a drainway in every upright tube. Just a little hole, drilled near the bottom, should suffice, imo. Even good caps eventually leak. Water has to find a way out.

The bath door always looks "tweaked" if we're not quite level, which for us is common. It's still hung in there, 14 seasons in. Hope yours does, too. Our drawers in 2008-9 didn't have the "soft close." When we had the soft closers installed, our bottom drawer quit opening on its own. Weird . I think that's standard, now . New concept, ten years ago. The ikea drawer we installed under the fridge stayed closed for a year. I'm duct taping it for travel, now. I'm going to install some kind of marine latch though, by summer's end. It's tiresome.

Whoa, @GarryandKristi, we have good friends in Escalon! Small world 🌎

Hi, and welcome to the group, from hull #12. We're enjoying our 14th season in our 2008. Hope you have as much fun with your Ollie as we've had with ours.

We wish you the best, too, Pennie, in powering through whatever the circumstances may be. Stay in touch. We've all enjoyed your positive and cheerful input. We'll look forward to your return.

We had to show her rabies vax paperwork at the registration booth. New York parks are the only places this has ever happened to us, other than the Canadian border.

My husband's home state, NY, has many favorites for us. Assuming you are going the 90 or the 20, then up toward New England... Alleghany State Park, South of Buffalo, near Salamanca, is beautiful. I have no recommendations for camping by the Niagara Falls, because we always driveway camp in the Buffalo area, with my SIL on her beautiful acreage, but my friend spent several days at the KOA up there, and found it a great place for exploring the Falls area. Heading east, don't miss Letchworth state park, the "Grand Canyon of the east." It's truly beautiful, nice campsites, and lots to explore. It's just a bit off 20A, heading towards Rochester. Most times that we've camped in the Adirondack, It's been cold and rainy fall weather, but pretty . On the shore of Lake Champlain, Ausable point is a favorite. We'd sit and watch the boats and the ferry on the lake. Very peaceful, in the fall. If you are traveling with a pet in NY state, make sure you have your pet's rabies vax paperwork with you. One of the few times I wasn't carrying Liv's papers, because we weren't going into Canada, I had to call my vet, and have her certificate faxed. If we'd been after hours, it would have been a bummer.

We tend to follow cooler weather, but we still sometimes wind up in 90 plus degree weather. Our three ways did fine. Yes, they kept beer cold, as well as food. We don't often buy ice cream, but that stayed frozen, too. We've had our dc compressor fridge for two seasons now. I really like it, but it's not necessarily the best choice for everyone. Though we upgraded to 400 watts of solar, and 200 portable, I still have to run the generator some days, as it uses at least 60 to 70 amp hours a day, and that's in the relative cool of 3000 ft elevation in North Carolina. (We have only two 12v x 105 ah batteries in our Elite.) Yes, we're in the camp that ran on propane while driving. some seem to be fine on 12v driving, but not us. Relax. Get your fridge cold at home before leaving, and enjoy the 3 way. It's not that big of a learning curve.

Rvupgrades is out of stock on the dome with the led light, but if I were you, I'd wait for it. It's really nice to have the overhead light, for just a few bucks more. It's a fairly soft light, not too glaring. You can also check camping world. About $90 there, but very few stores have it in stock.

Oh, I see, he bought a Bigfoot. The Barefoot is a different little camper, built previously only in the uk. NuCamp will be producing it here in the US, and selling through a dealer network.

So, saw this when we stopped for dinner the other night at our favorite CaliMex restaurant near Asheville. It brought back so many fond memories of my original little Maverick. Now, I'm looking, 50 years later, at the new Maverick tiny pickup. With 4 x 4 and 4k, tow package, it could actually tow our smaller boat, and even my Elite (though only locally, flatland Florida). No hybrid, though, with 4 x 4. Bummer. Disclaimer: my original Maverick was plain white. No "cool" carbon fiber hood.