How in the world has it been six months already? The past six months have flown by. There have been times of work and times of adventure. Here’s to hoping the next six months bring a little rest too. Here are five lessons we’ve learned over the past six months.
30 Amp is Not Enough
Pretty much from the start of our fulltime RV adventure, we had issues with tripping breakers. Especially after our first month, when we moved from our cabin hosting position to our camp hosting position. We were having terrible issues with our main breaker tripping. It would trip several times a day sometimes with little more than just the AC running. I’ve replaced the breaker twice so far. Thankfully, now with the weather starting to cool down and having more experience with what we can and can’t run at one time, things have gotten better. Still, the plan is to convert The Tin Can to 50 amp service soon. ~ Philip
Organize. Purge. Repeat.
Moving into a travel trailer, I really thought that purging and organizing would be a “one and done” or like a once a year thing. Boy was I wrong! I didn’t realize how big of an ongoing job it would be! At least 1 weekend a month, we dedicate to purging. We throw away everything that’s broken, that we don’t have a use for, clothing that’s stained, packages to things we’ve purchased, etc. ~ Angelica
We Are Overloaded
The day before we launched, Angelica and I took The Tin Can to be weighed. I had noticed that our axle springs looked pretty stressed and thought that we may be overweight. My mind was put to some ease, though, when I got weight ticket from the Cat Scale attendant. The Tin Can weighed in a few hundred pounds below it GVWR. I was so relieved! The look of those axle springs bothered me even still. Then while talking to a fellow RVer, they brought to my attention that my GVWR was my 2 axle weight ratings plus my tongue weight rating. It was an ah-ha moment! This means that my axles are overloaded. Beefing up our suspension is now one of our near future projects. ~ Philip
So Much Paperwork
Look around your house. How much paperwork do you have laying around? Mail? Bills? Kids’ school work? Take-out menus? Insurance policies? Living fulltime is NOT at all conducive to all this paper! There’s no place to store it. There’s no weight available for it. So what do we do? We use our mail service to our advantage. They will shred items that need shredding if we know what it is coming in the mail. Other things are scanned into our computers as soon as they come in and are often burned in campfires. Important documents such as birth certificates, Social Security cards, insurance paperwork, etc. are kept in a fireproof safe within our travel trailer. I must say, running 4 businesses out of our travel trailer certainly does not help with the amount of paperwork coming in and going out either! ~ Angelica
Procrastinators’ Anonymous Meeting CANNOT Be Postponed
While at our Fulltime Families rally in Canada, back in September, it was asked at a morning coffee talk, ‘what have you learned being on the road?’. For me it was, you cant put doing stuff off too long. When we arrived at our previous assignment, we knew that we would be there for 7 weeks. I planned on repacking the wheel bearing on The Tin Can while at this stay and thought I had plenty of time to get it done. Well, next thing I knew it was week 6 of our stay, and I still hadn’t done it! This is only one example during these 6 months on the road I’ve procrastinated too long. Knowing me, it probably won’t be the last either. ~ Philip
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