Setting Up



Just after the 4th of July, we pulled the trailer to Mule Creek on a Sunday afternoon.  We set her up on the concrete pad, hooked up electrical, water and sewer.  Everything worked and went pretty smoothly.  We bought a freestanding air conditioner unit at Lowes to deal with the summer heat.  It took some effort to get it vented properly through the louvered windows, and then it took a while for it to catch up with the heat.  But by evening it had cooled off nicely.

Getting used to RV life takes some time.  There's so little room that everything has to be done very deliberately. The changes in the space from sleeping to eating to working together at the tiny dinette have to be planned out carefully, minimizing movement and avoiding thrashing around.  It's very easy to get in each other's way and on each other's nerves. But we love it.  It's our little home away from home, our cabin in the mountains.

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