1st outing a success!

[shores11]

Well I just got back from my first outing with my new to me PUP and everything went well!  Many thanks to everyone on the forum for all I've learned!!  I stayed close to home at a COE campground on Lake Lanier (Georgia).  Had some rain Thursday night and Friday, but stayed nice and dry.  MUCH more enjoyable than tent camping!!  From Friday evening on the weather was beautiful.  Here's what I learned:

1. BAL levelers are wonderful.  They work even better if you remember to BRING A LEVEL with you.  (Trip home #1)

2. Campground water can be seriously bad.  I'm not kidding - it was BAD!  Note to self - bring a couple of gallons of water from home.  And maybe don't camp downhill from the bathrooms. (Trip to store #1)

3. DuoTherm AC's are much louder inside than outside.  I sleep with a fan usually, so it wasn't an issue, but it was surprisingly loud!

4. The weekend after Memorial Day a good one - very few other campers!

5.  Salt and pepper will not magically appear in the kitchen if you didn't remember to bring any with you (Trip to store #2)

6.  The Weber Q 120 is a nice little grill

7.  When you have a weird looking PUP, people will stop by for a tour.  (other campers, rangers, etc)

8.  A garbage bag in the middle of the floor isn't the best trash solution - need a small wastecan or something.  I'm open to suggestions. 

9.  Early morning, cup of coffee, looking out over the lake, birds chirping .....  ahhhhh - I've missed camping! 

Time to plan trip #2!

Dave

[Oz and Us]

Note to self - bring a couple of gallons of water from home.

Get yourself a couple of 7 gal Aquatainers for this purpose - inexpensive, durable, food grade, and cube shaped so they store easily without wasting space ... can't beat 'em!

The Weber Q 120 is a nice little grill

Use it a bit more and you'll discover the Weber Q120 is an OUTSTANDING grill for camping.

Congrats on the success of your first trip!

[ScoobyDoo]

  For drinking water we use a big orange water cooler just like working costruction. For trash we use spring formed containers to hold the sack, big 1 outside, small('bout 2 gal.) inside.

[paulmlac]

8.  A garbage bag in the middle of the floor isn't the best trash solution - need a small wastecan or something.  I'm open to suggestions. 

We use a plastic grocery bag hanging on a cabinet knob on the inside & a kitchen trash bag hanging on a camper lid latch on the outside.

[grubbster]

We use a collapsible trash can like this: http://www.amazon.com/Hopkins-TRASH-BLA-Pop-Trash-Can/dp/B000BQWLE6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1338768291&sr=8-4.  We just use plastic grocery bags to line it and take them out daily.

[upnorthpup]

Got a chuckle from your posting Dave  Always seems to be something we forgot each trip also  As for my trash container, I ALWAYS take a home depot bucket along on my trips. I use it as a step stool when setting up my awning, then it becomes my trash bucket for the rest of the weekend. Happy Campin 

[shores11]

Thanks for all the suggestions!  Love the Home Depot bucket idea - multi-purpose is good!  And I will definitively grab some form of water container for the next trip - will be handy for boondocking even if it turns out I don't need it at a campsite with decent water. Thanks again all!!

Dave

[iwon2camp]

We always hang a trash sack outside the camper, but the little popup ones from amazon would be perfit.  I have tried the bucket and just seems a little big for our floorplan.  And also dancing girls get alot more attention than a strange
looking camper.............lol...happy camping!!!


Jeff

[yooperguy]

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7.  When you have a weird looking PUP, people will stop by for a tour.  (other campers, rangers, etc)



Time to plan trip #2!

Dave

Congrats on rediscovering the joys and follies of camping and welcome to PUX.  What kind of weird looking PUP do you have?

[jet noise]

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8.  A garbage bag in the middle of the floor isn't the best trash solution - need a small wastecan or something.  I'm open to suggestions. 

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I use a trasharoo strapped to my spare tire. The bag is useful for all kinds of stuff, and it's up out of the way to keep out of the reach of critters. Love it! http://www.trasharoo.com/iWeb/TRASHAROO%20/About.html

[Tenttrailer]

We will on short trips, pre-fill out water holding tank so we use the water from house.

Trash can; we pickup one a samll one at walmart that uses the plastic grocery bags. 

Water continer: I like the coleman water bag  it folds up nicely and does not take up much space.

[shores11]

yooperguy:

[Steve in a Starcraft]

yooperguy:

It is a tad different looking, but I wouldn't call it weird. LOL

[Tenttrailer]

I like it. 

my first pup was like yours.  it was a viking that only had one bunkend.  I think it was a 1983.   It was great to move out of the tent and off the ground.  It had an ice box, furnace, power converter and battery.   

I had a large 1989 ford van and I think my mpg increased because it filled the big vacuum drag off the back of the van.  It could not have been more than 1,000 lbs dry.  I could pick up the tongue and move the trailer around by myself.  Only problem it was so short, I could almost not see it in the side mirrors.  I had to look out the windows of the back door when backing up.  I think it was 10 or 12 feet long from tongue to rear bumper

When I sold it, it moved quickly because there was a sortage of light trailers and I got a very good price.

[yooperguy]

Cool!  Thanks shores11.