It is Monday morning. The temperature is around 30 degrees outside but we are toasty warm inside our rental RV. I started the fireplace (just the push of a button really) which is more than pretty fake flames as it is also a heater. We slept wall last night, mostly because Vicky and I were both dead tired.
Towing a fifth-wheel RV is actually pretty easy. It tows nice and smooth and tracks corners fairly predictably. You need to be careful because the vehicle is articulated differently than a tow trailer, but I got used to it quickly. You also need to be mindful of the length and so picking out a parking place at a mid-trip stop can be tricky. Backing up would be a real chore. And the air bags that my buddy Lynn and I installed on the truck worked perfectly. I prefilled them to 40 psi and when I lowered the trailer onto the Andersen hitch, the truck barely settled at all. Its really a good setup.
And speaking of setups, Vicky and I must have looked like the Keystone Cops while we were setting up our camp site. We were running around doing half chores here and half chores there – but we got it done. We each had a walkie talkie radio so Vicky can help guide me into the site with room for the slides and aligning the rig to the hookups and at one point we were standing back to back about 10 feet about talking to each other on the radios. When we were done we sat in our camp chairs, in front of our rental camper, and toasted each other with the wine that Monique (she and her husband rented us the Cruiser) provided us. Ahhhh – the glamping life.
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