Post-Trip Comments

10 September 2013

The LED light over the sink has failed. We really miss it. We're still under warranty.

We should buy a funnel to help us in manually pouring water into the Escape fresh water tank.

It is quite possible to sleep four adults in the Escape 19! We gave our sons the queen bed and didn't hear any complaints about that. Great Husband and I slept on the dinette, which is 42 to 44 inches wide depending on how you measure it. This isn't that much wider really than a single bed. Great Husband huddled against the front wall and I stayed carefully on my own 20" of turf, even when rolling over. The dinette seat cushions are too firm for great sleeping, but we adjusted over time. The old bones didn't suffer too much. I think we had more minor conflict over the proper sleeping temperature and the cold wind from the air conditioner than over anything else.

The secret to happiness in a small trailer is keeping it as clean and uncluttered as humanly possible.

We used the air conditioner overnight several nights, mainly due to high humidity, but it is definitely noisy. When the compressor is running it's too cold in the trailer, but when it's not running, it's too humid. Great Husband wishes the air conditioner had a lower fan speed. Low is not very low.

The refrigerator fan (installed under Dometic warranty behind the refrigerator) isn't coming on and there is no evidence that it has run at all since leaving our driveway. It died a very quick death, didn't it? We never got to truly give it an extended test, other than a drive to Fremont, Nebraska a few days before this trip and back without anything in the fridge. On that drive, Great Husband thinks the fan was working, but even so the fridge warmed up rapidly while on the road. We don't think the new baffle on the outside of the Escape is doing anything, and we wish the repairman had not installed it. Great Husband is agitating for removal.

We drove home to Omaha in just two legs, stopping first at a KOA east of Columbus, Ohio that was too expensive and not that nice for the money. Since our refrigerator was dead on the road and nearly empty anyway, we just turned it completely off and drove the whole way from Columbus to Omaha on the second day, arriving home just after midnight. Counting gas stops and other breaks, that took us 17 1/2 hours. There was a nice lightning display coming west across Iowa.

Total miles this trip-- 4037