Thanks for the tip JP, I definitely took a tool kit. And of course I needed it, my top awning bracket at the front rattled itself loose and popped off when I tried to deploy the awning, so I had to rig it to hold it stable for the drive back.
Other than that, it was a fantastic trip. First time I've ever camped in anything other than a tent, and I can't even describe how safe and dry it made me feel on behalf of my family. It poured rain all Saturday evening and night, and we were happily sheltered, and able to have a good time without worrying about getting soaked.
I only managed a few pictures due to all the rain, but I'll post 'em up later, maybe tonight.
Vernon, we had so much fun camping that we all called in sick on monday morning
Yea, yea, yea...I would have gone camping this weekend but I had to stay home and change the air in my tires. I kept putting it off but it just needed to get done.
I have been meaning to change the air in my tires too....
You know Vernon, next year you will be camping and Marcus will be loosing 50 pounds sweating in the hot Austin sun.
You know, I could stand to lose a few-- I put on some sympathy baby weight when my wife was pregnant, and it seems that a diet of beer, margaritas, BBQ, and Tex-Mex was not made for rapid weight loss...
So the camera got wet during all the rain and I had to dry it out, but now I'm going to post a couple of pics. We really didn't take many because of all of the rain.
My Airstream and me:
The reason I bought an Airstream to begin with:
She loved sleeping in her pack 'n' play up in the front lounge.
The family:
As I said before, only a coule of mishaps. The first is that the top awning bracket popped off just as I was trying to deploy it, so I plan to repair that today.
Second, there is a very small leak somewhere in the Astradome. I haven't been able to find it, and it's possible I just didn't have the cover down symmetrically, so I'm looking into that again as well.
Hopefully I'll have a full set of awning repair photos to post this evening.
Marcus, when you open the front rockguard, you will notice a series of holes in the slotted tracks that it rests on when open. These are to put pins in so the guard won't come slamming down after a few minutes of being open. It happened once to us at 3 am. The next morning I drilled the holes and pinned the guard open. No more middle-of-the-night rumble rumble WHACK! sounds waking us up...
I've been thinking about taking the rock guard off mine for a while now. It seems like it's more of a pain than its worth, plus it would be nice to be able to see through the trailer on trips to see who's behind me!
I've been thinking about taking the rock guard off mine for a while now. It seems like it's more of a pain than its worth, plus it would be nice to be able to see through the trailer on trips to see who's behind me!
JP
There's a couple of reasons, and it could be used in both arguments.
1-The front window of the older trailers is plain glass, so it's pretty inexpensive to replace when it breaks while not using a rock guard.
2-The front window of the older trailers is plain glass, so it can break very easily, and you will have shards of glass all over the front of the trailer. Add to that if it rains while towing with the broken window, things will get very wet very fast.
Another possibility would be to substitute Lexan for glass in the front window -- this is what I did with my '64 Overlander when the glass cracked in the front window. I didn't have the rock guard on mine, but wouldn't it be possible to substitue clear Lexan for the opaque fiberglass?
Kevin
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1964 Overlander International/1999 GMC K2500 Suburban (7400 VORTEC/4.11 Differentials)
1978 Argosy Minuet 6.0 Metre/1975 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible (8.2 Liter V8/2.70 Final Drive)
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