Our Complete Rig

Here is our complete rig, We are now ready for retirement in another year.  Even weighed it full and we are just underweight, so all should good.  Also just completed a 80 mile round trip getting use to dolly towing and our miles per gallon only dropped by 1 mile per gallon not bad.  Our loaded Spark and Dolly only weigh 2740 pounds.

 I bought a baby camera (wireless) for 59.00 at Walmart below is a photo of the monitor screen looking at our tow car.  The monitor has a 8 hour battery then we plug it in to recharge overnight.  We limit our daily drives to 6 hours tops.

 Below is a photo of our baby camera set up in our back window.  This unit requires 110 plug in so I plug it into our solar battery power invert-er

 Finally here is a photo through our side mirror you can just see the edge of the wheel out either side. 

Our setup camping in a Colorado State Park by Grand Junction.  To me the shelter seems turned around wrong (all were like this) but what do I know:)

Note on Class C's (gas) many use the same chassis so the longer they get the less load/cargo you can put in it, or pull behind it.  Think of it this way a 23 footer probably has the highest load capacity available.  Every foot over 23 foot adds more steal frame and living space weight, leaves less cargo /people load.  So take this in to consideration when you buy or rent one.

Stove Top Cast Iron Skillet Bread

Kathy and I were talking about the Turkish Bread we use to buy when we were stationed in Turkey many years ago.  This made me look for some stove top versions on the internet I found several and here is my version that works well.  I have a photo and the ingredients below.

I am always looking for simple things I can cook outside on my Coleman white gas stove with few ingredients.  Normally I do the outside cooking and Kathy does the fancy stuff inside.  For this I should have used a smaller pan and it would have came out round.  Took about 1 hour and 20 min from start to finish, 60 minutes was for letting the dough rise.

                                                                    2 cups flour

                                                                    1 1/4 cup water

                                                                    1tbs yeast

                                                                    1tsp salt

                                                                    1tsp sugar

                                                                    Dash of dry dill

Warm water and yeast in a bowl, add flour, salt and sugar hand mix and roll into a ball.  Cover bowl and let sit for 60 minutes.  Roll out into a log and cut into 3 or 4 pieces and flatten (sprinkle with Dill) to fit a small cast iron pan. Put one flat bread in to a well oiled and heated cast iron pan.  Depending on the heat 1 to 2 minutes flip for 1 to 2 more then remove and add another.  Once all are done sit back and enjoy.  No oven needed:)

DIY Rain Guards for your screens

In our old RV I had bought rain guards for our windows so we could leave some windows open for ventilation while in town and not have to worry about a rain shower while we were out.  So in my search for some of them I learned they stopped making them in 2014.  Here is my first attempt at making my own.

These are made out of cardboard which I had around the home front.  I will try them out for the summer, may add white duct tape over them so they will survive a rain shower or two.

 In the above photo you can see my DIY insert with two vents open, I can just slide the window down and they close.  The cardboard just fits in between the window and screen which gives it strength.

Here you see our biggest window by the dining table, white tape would make this one look a lot better:)  For this one I have to slide open the screen and either take the guard out for travel, or to close the vents then the window for travel. 

 Here I am trimming the cardboard to fit the window these are very easy to make and hopefully use for the summer.

Finally I cut in the vents which I hope will allow air in and keep rain out, at least most of it:)

6/20 update.  I have added one to our slide out bedroom and white duct tapped them all so they are some what water resistant. These along with vent covers over our three roof vents have increased air flow several times over in rainy weather, without running the AC.




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