Yeah, I have no pictures of this. We were trying to get the rig turned around to get to our RV spot for our *first night* in it. Instead of simply driving to the end of the lane and looping around, we opted to turn around the shorter, easier way — make a U-turn at the park entrance.
I was driving and was well into the maneuver when I thought that the stop sign seemed very close to the right side. “You’re going to miss it by a mile,” Jack assured me.
We did not miss it by anything at all. As the rear of the RV swung to the right, the sign scraped half the way down the side and ripped up the fiberglass cap on the back of the formerly beautiful RV.
It’s on me, I know. But it’s also a bit on Jack. But, yeah, I know. It’s me, and I’ll be paying handily for it, unless we decide to let insurance have its way with us.
We did enjoy a few days at Picacho Peak RV resort anyway. We drove down to Tucson one day, up to Casa Grande one day, ate some Eegee’s, had some ice cream, and mourned that we we really had to get the thing fixed before we could actually go on a trip. It’s in for its first estimate right now. ugh.
In brighter news, we did enjoy the RV. Aside from a couple of glitches, like we can’t figure out how to get any TV to work, it drives easily, lives comfortably, seats nicely, and sleeps well.
Jack has come up with some ideas of cabinetry additions — drawers, essentially, that he’s going to add. And he wants to make little drink tables for the couch arms.
Jodie did well. She threw up on the way down, but did not on the way back home. We had her tethered to the couch seatbelt and she slept comfortably most of the trip.
We tried a couple of different crating options. We made the dinette into a bed and put her crate in the center part. The worked nicely except.. no dinette for us!
So then we tried just using the crate sides as baby gates to close off the bathroom/shower area. That worked very well. At night, we just left the bath door open so that she (and we) remained closed into the back part of the RV. We all slept well that way.