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Originally Posted by dreina
Anybody create a step by step check list for entering and exiting the van? Like sequence of turning things on and off.
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I don't bother with a written checklist. Part of that is the desire to exercise my memory on the "use it or lose it" principle. After all, as they say, "When the memory goes, you can just forget it!"
Another part of my aversion to checklists for camping is the free-form nature of the activity, no two camping trips are alike. A REAL checklist would look like a decision tree, branching every which way at a variety of "Yes/No" toggles, like "Is the campsite level?" and "Are you boondocking?" and "Will you use propane or electricy to heat the water?" and a variety of others. A checklist to cover
all eventualities would either be too general to be of much good, or contain a lot of specifics that you'll need to do sometimes but can skip other times.
Anyway, there are very few examples of things that have to be done in a certain order and in the same order every time in an Interstate. For the most part, as long as things get done, they can be done in just about any order, when you get around to it.
Exceptions include "make sure the water heater is full of water before turning it on" and "turn on the breakers at the service pedestal first, then the breakers inside the Airstream." But that's all just common sense and shouldn't require a checklist to remember.
Once I learned enough about my Interstate's systems, doing what was needful when it was needed became second nature.
Though to be perfectly honest, my very first outing, I
did use a checklist that I downloaded from somewhere. But when I left the campsite, I forgot one thing that
wasn't on the checklist, namely "Put the checklist back in the camper before leaving!" I forgot that I left it on the campsite's picnic table, and never went back for it and never used a checklist again!
Pretty soon you will read some of his other posts and see all the things you should have as a new owner... and then before you realize it, you and the amazon delivery guy are best friends. 
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