Bourbon

Well today we set of on what we called our shakedown trip, a couple of nights not far from Johns, 180 miles in distance. The purpose of this trip is get ourselves sorted in towing, setting up, the roads and many of the other things we need to learn. Firstly the trip, it rained most of the way so challenging to say the least, our RV sat nav worked a treat no wrong turns. We arrived at our RV park to find out a fuse had blown on the landing gear, so unable to un hitch, so into Walmart again to get a fuse, I did buy fuses last week but would you believe this was a small type fuse, so much for being prepared! The upside of this was we found a better park to stay in so it worked out for the better.

Our park is about 500 metres from the Heaven Hill Distillery so we will be checking that out tomorrow. As for the trailer it went great, truck pulled it no problems. We spent the last week preparing our trailer and it has paid off, no breakages or cupboards wide open when we stopped. We have lined all the cupboards with none slip stuff, including putting it in between all the plates. So all in all our trailer preparation has been good.

We arrived at our alternate park to a chilly 4 degrees Celsius, jackets out! No pull through spots here so I did my first reverse park, and we did well, I say we because it takes two to back this thing. One of the best tips I read was to get walkie talkies, we did, and it was great to speak normally to one another rather than yelling to an unseen person. Instructions from Rose were great we were in with minimal problems, I gave my self a 7/10. Not a harsh word said was said between us in this process.

Setting up for the first time was slow but that said it was our first time and we took our time so we could think about things and not make to many errors. The next problem we had was as this is a State Park things are a bit sparse, including the hookups! Bugger our power lead and water hose were just to short, so set the trailer up and off to Walmart again to get extensions for both.

Ok we are done all hooked up, furnace is on, expected temp is -4 Celsius tonight, brrr. Only two things left to do, dinner and a red wine, cheers till next time.


- Posted by RnR on their IPad

Location:Bardstown KY