Electrical problems
On the way home from my last trip, I discovered that the camper had a taillight out. I replaced the bulb and checked the wiring, but the right-side taillight still wouldn't work for the brakes or turn signal.
So when I got home, I dug a little deeper, tracing the wires back from the taillight to the truck, and of course, the taillights are tied into the truck’s trailer plug. When I pulled out the truck trailer plug from between the Truck’s bed and the camper, only half of it came out. The female part of the plug remained firmly hidden, wedged between the truck's bed and the camper's wall. There wasn't enough room to reach down and bring it out, so I figured I would jack up the camper with its electric jacks a few inches, and I would be able to reach the hidden plug.
I retrieved my Camper Jack remote, replaced the battery, and then pressed the button inside the camper door to activate the power to the four electric jacks. However, nothing happened; there was no power to the jacks, so the remote couldn't do anything.
I checked the fuses in the electric Jack power station and couldn't find anything wrong. So as it stands now, my taillights on the camper are not working at all. I'm having trouble with the wires connecting the truck to the Lance camper, and I'm also unable to get the electric camper jacks working. There's a manual way to operate the jacks, but I don't have the right tool to fit in the hole and raise them manually.
So it appears that I'm up a rather smelly creek without a paddle. I still have a livable home, but like everybody else's, it can't be legally moved, and being able to move is the only benefit this teeny tiny home has.
But I’ll figure it out. What do you do when nothing works, the world is collapsing around you, and the future looks bleak? We all learned the answer to that from the movie “Animal House.”Toga Party !! ……Toga! Toga! Toga!
Theboondork
Boondocking near the High Country.
And speaking of the high country, I drive through the high country occasionally, but I don't stay there. The high country, above timberline, can be a miserable place to be.
Timberline around here is about 10 to 11,000 feet, and once you get out of the trees and into the barren treeless areas near the peaks, everything gets miserable quickly. It might be below freezing in the Summer, and snow could fall in August. The wind often blows at hurricane strength; the air is so thin that it makes it hard for flatlanders to breathe. Additionally, propane stoves and heaters don’t work as they should, if at all, since there’s so little oxygen.
So, the high country is interesting to drive through and beautiful to look at, but if you want to be a happy camper, stay below the tree line.
Sunrise at a boondocking area near Buena Vista, Colorado.
Sunrise, same area.