Back to the dealer for a couple of needed repairs. On our last trip we noticed that we could not open the rear sliding window. It apparently had been over tightened at the factory causing the frame to bind.
Also we found some caulk in the carpeting, one of the slide-out awnings would pool with water every time it rained and the front hatch door latch that had been replaced on our last visit did not hold the door in position.
I want to take a moment to thank my friends at Hamiltons RV in Saginaw, MI for completing my RV order. We ordered our new Jayco with two Air-conditioning units: one 13500 BTU and one 15000 BTU. For some reason or another it arrived at the dealership late last year with only two 13500 BTU units. I want to thank our salesman Bob for correcting this error for us. I would also like to thank Ben, Gordon and the guys in the service department for swapping the AC units for us. I am glad we chose Hamiltons as our point of purchase.
Tim R. Enright
A bit of satire for all those RVers out there who see the humor in what we love.
Don’t…
1. Drive down the road with more than 2 slides out.
2. Use your sewer hose to fertilize your neighbor’s flowers.
3. Backup your RV into the … FILL IN THE BLANK.
4. Hang raw meat on the clothesline to scare away the bears.
5. Tie the dog to the rear bumper while you pack to go home and forget.
6. Put your awning out over the fire pit so the rain won’t put it out.
7. Use the air conditioner, microwave, coffee pot, hairdryer and toaster all at the same time and wonder why the TV went out.
8. Drive your rig down a one-way road if you don’t know what is at the other end.
9. Plan a camping trip for your church group only the find out the place you booked is clothing optional.
10. Fill your air mattress with LP gas if you smoke in bed.
11. Believe the salesman when he says that you can easily tow that new Toy Hauler with your Smart Car.
12. Put the RV up on blocks and yell out to the kids “we’re home now!”
13. Run out of gas only to realize that you put the gas into your water tank instead.
14. Use honey as suntan lotion in August.
15. Drive your Rig through the fast food drive-thru window without looking at the menu first.
16. Hang Grandma’s lawn chair (with her in it) on the bike rack because the seats inside are full.
17. Park your RV directly on your neighbor’s water hose.
18. Forget to put the support bars under the slide out of your Pop-Up before you leap into bed.
19. Take binoculars to the beach and try to convince your wife you are just going to look for birds.
20. Fix your flat tire with Duct Tape.
21. Put whiskey in your fresh water tank to keep it from freezing (OK, this one really doesn’t sound so bad.)
22. Hook the trailer up to the truck while your wife is still inside on the toilet.
23. Go up top and check the TV antenna during a thunderstorm because you can’t get the weather channel.
24. Pour water down the outside of the kid’s tent when they are inside while moaning “AHHHH”.
25. Carry your PETA sign through a deer hunting camp.
26. Feed the Seagulls and wonder where all the White Rain is coming from.
27. Put Arm Floaties on Grandpa, push him into the lake and expect him home in time for dinner.
28. Leave the parking brake in your toad on as you travel.
29. Explain to the kids how you through the cat’s toy into the fire and you’re waiting for it to return.
30. Walk past the neighbor’s Pit Bull with a pocket full of Hotdogs.
31. Cook marshmallows over a fire taller than yourself.
32. Steal the neighbor’s Cable connection on game day.
33. Clean your fish with a chainsaw.
34. Jam a stick into the black tank drain to unclog it.
35. Pet the neighbor’s dog if he has foam coming from his mouth.
36. Whisper sweet nothings into your wife’s ear while sitting in a group around the campfire, if you forgot to put on your hearing aid.
37. Try serving a veggie burger to a hunter.
38. Sunbathe on a Tuesday in the rain.
39. Cook microwave popcorn on a campfire.
40. Ride your bike if someone stole the seat and the tire is flat.
41. Get out, drop to your knees and kiss the ground after the first time your wife drives the RV.
42. Use a Roman candle to start a campfire.
43. Go jogging in high heels before 6AM.
44. Eat all your worms before you go fishing.
45. Sit with your back to the campfire after eating baked beans.
46. Take the Pop-Up down with your wife still in it.
47. Fill your fresh water tank using the hose marked “not to be used for drinking” at the dump station.
48. Light your cigarette with a bon-fire.
49. Practice casting your new fishing pole into a crowd.
50. Go swimming with bait in the pockets of your shorts.
51. Use a hack saw to disconnect the power cord because it is stuck.
52. Stretch a rubber glove over the head of your neighbor’s little barking dog.
53. Dive into a frozen lake within 30 minutes after eating.
54. Yell out profanities because you dropped a log on your foot at church camp.
55. Sing campfire songs around the fire in the middle of the night, all by yourself.
56. Drive a 13 foot trailer under a 12 foot bridge.
57. Roast marshmallows over the fire on the tip of your finger.
58. Go for a hike in the woods wearing a brown jumpsuit with a white hanky sticking out of the back pocket during Deer Season. (Actually, I wouldn’t find this fashionable
any time of the year.)
59. Eat a Popsicle after it falls on the ground and more than 2 ants get on it.
60. Dump your tanks while driving down the road.
61. Water ski behind a red row boat.
62. Use gasoline to start the electric fireplace in your RV.
63. Swim in shark infested water if you are blonde.
64. Go to the beach wearing only the top half of your wife’s swim suit.
65. Kiss that sweet little puppy if you can’t tell which end you are holding up.
66. Pull the handle on your tanks before you hook up the hose.
67. Expect the life guard to save you if his seeing-eye dog is a sleep.
68. Go hiking with the wrong map.
69. Use your outside shower in the nude.
70. Put peanut butter on a jellyfish.
71. Start the campfire with your only remaining roll of toilet paper.
72. Take ownership of your air mattress by carving your name in it.
73. Play the cornhole game with cream-style corn.
74. Brush your hair with a grill cleaning brush.
75. Use a meat thermometer if you think you have a fever.
76. Yell “Fire” in the middle of bingo.
77. Run and Jump head first into the kiddie pool.
78. Clean your fish in the hot tub.
79. Shoot hoops with a shotgun.
80. Pitch a tent that is two-thirds or more in a lake.
81. Forget to duck under the bed slide on your 5th wheel while chasing after the dog.
82. Put all the snacks in the kid’s tent so the bears don’t steal them.
83. Shove all your fishing hooks into your front pockets.
84. Crow like a rooster at Dawn, or Sue, or Peggy, or Mary, or Jill…
85. Whittle a snake out of Grandma’s cane.
86. Try to squeeze your big butt into a small folding chair.
87. Throw flaming marshmallows at the neighbor’s kids.
88. Rent a RV for vacation if you don’t know how to drive.
89. Pour sugar all over the table to create a sand trap for the ants.
90. Run barefoot through the campfire so you don’t mess up your new sandals.
91. Practice your yodeling at 3AM.
92. Drive into town without unhooking either the electric cord or the hitch.
93. Tell the nice man at the boarder that your husband needs to carry a lot of guns because he likes to kill stuff every once in a while.
94. When your wife and kids go back to the trailer to eat lunch at the rest stop, unhook and take off. (However tempting this may be, it never works out well.)
95. Ask the salesman if you will need reindeer to pull your new Toy Hauler.
96. Shove the Kid’s hamster into the tank drain so they can run around and clean the tank out.
97. Put the steps away without letting anyone inside know.
98. Try to write a book about 99 things NOT to do while RVing, when you can only think of 98 things.
Article Courtesy of : www.BugSmacker.com : Copyright © 2013
Mounting a TV on the wall of your RV isn’t as clear cut as you might think. There are literally thousands of different types of mounts out there to choose from. You want to make sure the one you choose is right for your particular application.
We recently purchased a new RV. On the wall in the bedroom was a label indicating the spot to which a TV mount could be attached. The wall is just over an inch thick and behind the wall is plywood to help support the bracket. The TV we are mounting is a 22” LCD which weighs about 16 lbs.
I quickly discovered that shopping for the proper TV bracket was going to be a challenge. Because the mount was going into a RV and not a typical home setting, it posed additional concerns. The mount needed the following features:
The last 2 features were the ones that fell short on most all of the models that I found. Since the wall was only 1” the long bolts that come with most wall brackets would not work unless I wanted to be able to hang a jacket on the end of the screw protruding from the outside of the wall. I also needed a way to lock the TV into place while traveling. Make sure you consider the weight capacity. Keep in mind that unlike the mount in your home, this one is going to be subject to the typical bumps and jars of traveling down the road.
I discovered MOR/ryde
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