May 23, 2013 Our first outing with Sammi's Big Brother

We busted our butts to get everything ready but we made it.  We did our first outing with the RV and the Sammi towing behind on Memorial Day weekend.  The replacement for the brand new fancy on-demand water heater that didn't work came in that morning but we had been messing with it so much that we knew it inside and out so it was no problem to replace it with the new one within an hour.  Most of that time was spent driving to pick it up.

We hitched the Sammi to the back of the RV monster and headed south to Colorado Springs and then west on highway 24 toward Lake George, Colorado.  There is a real nice massive area of BLM land just to the west of Lake George that we decided we were going to use to try out our new toy and do some boondocking.

I am used to small cars so it was a little white knuckle to get this monster there.  The RV is 29 feet long, the hitch for the Sammi is another four feet and I guess the Sammi must be six feet so all and all we're talking 39 feet of vehicle headed out for a Memorial Day weekend camping trip.

My daughter Jaime and her husband Jered convoyed with us.  Jennifer and Craig were to meet us down there the next day.

 

 

We learned a lot about the new RV toy in the four days we spent living in it.  The new water heater didn't work any better than the original.  We made the decision that we would forget the idea of having an on-demand that didn't work and replace it with an old fashion water heater with a tank that we knew would work.  But for now here we were for four days with no hot water. 

 

 

It was a beautiful setting secluded behind some boulders out away from the crowd.  A little dusty but secluded.

 

It turns out there was no black tank on the beast.  How we could have missed that while we were doing so much work on it I have no idea.  More expense I suppose.  Another new water heater and now a black tank.