_chris_
Chief Petty Officer
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Sorry for the long read but I am about to burst.
This last week I took a vacation to Parawan Utah up in the hills with my 5th wheel travel trailer. I pulled up friday noontime and set up camp and it started pouring, no big deal just didn't have a fire. Saturday rolls around and I go on a quad ride and see more wildlife than I have ever seen before, great. I get back to camp and my trailer batteries were dead so I jumpstarted my generator with my pick up no big deal. We had brought our neighbors with us who have been camping with us several times before and for some reason my neighbors wife forgot everything about trailer etiquette and was washing a rag in the sink for about 5 minutes of straight running water(Probably 4-5 gallons) Now I really don't care but my other half let her know again that it is a trailer and we only have a 30 gallon holding tank that needs to last 5 days, that didn't go over well and now I have 2 bickering women making this trip horrible. OK so Saturday night I turn off the generator thinking my batteries are good, Nope completely dead. so now I am getting more grief about things not working(Water pump for toilet). Sunday rolls around and it is a beatuful day, We take a trip up the mountain Near Brian Head and it is great. we get back in the afternoon and we clean up for dinner and what do you know, we run out of water(100 Gallons) Yay I don't know how and have never even come close to running out before and on much longer trips. So I make the best of it and run to town and get about 20 gallons more of water. I then proceed to drink myself to sleep. We wake up Monday with no power and no water so we decide we will head down to Vegas and stay there for the night and come home in the morning instead of camping till Tuesday and traveling all in one day. Vegas was nice I haven't been there in years we walked the strip and had a good time. We wake up Tuesday and hit the road, we got to state line and I pull over to use the restroom and hear a clicking noise, my battery compartment door had opened on the road and hit the button to lower the landing gear and they stopped about an inch from the ground but the motor kept turning and tore itself apart so now I cannot control them at all yipee. Well we get back on the raod and about 20 miles out of Barstow I blow a tire on the trailer GREAT it takes out part of the trailer with it. I put on my spare and we are on the road again and make it home fine. I called my insurance company to file a claim and while I was on the phone with them I was bringing in my slide out and forgot to close a cupboard door and it ripped it apart(Not just off the hinges but in pieces). I then decided to just go in the house and figure things out this morning.
OK today rolls around and I hop in my truck to go to work (With trailer attached since I can't get it off due to broken gear), I get about 30 feet and POW my 5th wheel came unhitched and fell on the bed of my truck, I guess someone thinks it's funny to pull a pin and wait for me to drive away.
Here are a couple pics.
This last week I took a vacation to Parawan Utah up in the hills with my 5th wheel travel trailer. I pulled up friday noontime and set up camp and it started pouring, no big deal just didn't have a fire. Saturday rolls around and I go on a quad ride and see more wildlife than I have ever seen before, great. I get back to camp and my trailer batteries were dead so I jumpstarted my generator with my pick up no big deal. We had brought our neighbors with us who have been camping with us several times before and for some reason my neighbors wife forgot everything about trailer etiquette and was washing a rag in the sink for about 5 minutes of straight running water(Probably 4-5 gallons) Now I really don't care but my other half let her know again that it is a trailer and we only have a 30 gallon holding tank that needs to last 5 days, that didn't go over well and now I have 2 bickering women making this trip horrible. OK so Saturday night I turn off the generator thinking my batteries are good, Nope completely dead. so now I am getting more grief about things not working(Water pump for toilet). Sunday rolls around and it is a beatuful day, We take a trip up the mountain Near Brian Head and it is great. we get back in the afternoon and we clean up for dinner and what do you know, we run out of water(100 Gallons) Yay I don't know how and have never even come close to running out before and on much longer trips. So I make the best of it and run to town and get about 20 gallons more of water. I then proceed to drink myself to sleep. We wake up Monday with no power and no water so we decide we will head down to Vegas and stay there for the night and come home in the morning instead of camping till Tuesday and traveling all in one day. Vegas was nice I haven't been there in years we walked the strip and had a good time. We wake up Tuesday and hit the road, we got to state line and I pull over to use the restroom and hear a clicking noise, my battery compartment door had opened on the road and hit the button to lower the landing gear and they stopped about an inch from the ground but the motor kept turning and tore itself apart so now I cannot control them at all yipee. Well we get back on the raod and about 20 miles out of Barstow I blow a tire on the trailer GREAT it takes out part of the trailer with it. I put on my spare and we are on the road again and make it home fine. I called my insurance company to file a claim and while I was on the phone with them I was bringing in my slide out and forgot to close a cupboard door and it ripped it apart(Not just off the hinges but in pieces). I then decided to just go in the house and figure things out this morning.
OK today rolls around and I hop in my truck to go to work (With trailer attached since I can't get it off due to broken gear), I get about 30 feet and POW my 5th wheel came unhitched and fell on the bed of my truck, I guess someone thinks it's funny to pull a pin and wait for me to drive away.
Here are a couple pics.
