That's sort of what I tell my kids. You will make mistakes, and that's okay, as long as they LEARN from the mistakes. Making them again and again... That's where the trouble (and/or stupidity) comes in.It's only stupid if you repeat the same mistake again.
So far I haven't seen anybody doing the same mistake twice, so we must be good learners.
Oh, come now.... No teasers like that! Specifics (please)Loving this thread but I'm reminded why DH absolutely refuses to camp. LOL
Lol spewed coffee out my nose!!!!Anybody else ever pull up to the site, back in, level it out, unhook, and then get stung right between the eyes by an angry wasp that had his nest inside the power panel at the campground? I can still see him coming at me in slow motion.
The first and only trip we took to Disney with our old 5th wheel turned out to be the trip from.*&^%! We were driving from Massachusetts and we were in Georgia and all of a sudden hubby pulls over. He doesnt say a word and just gets out of the truck and looks at the 5th wheel and gets back in the car and starts swearing. Cant get anything out of him except find a home depo or a lowes now. Turns out that the wood rotted and the wall came separated from the floor of the trailer at the nose. you could literally put your hands up inside from the outside from a 12 -18 inch gap. luckily there was a home depot a few miles away. since hubby keeps every tool possible in the truck he managed to rig it up within an hour so we could get to the fort. Then he spent 5 hours really fixing it at the campground so we could get home.
all was go the rest of the trip until the ride home. We were a few hours from home and all of a sudden hubby starts swearing and pulls over. The aluminum siding on the passenger side of the trailer had come loose and was bend back about 8 feet and all that was keeping the insides from coming out was a sheet of insulation and a small piece of paneling. I had to go inside and move all the stuff to the back of the trailer and hubby nailed, duck taped and glued as much as he could just so we could get home.
A few weeks later hubby and his dad spent days taking the wall of the trailer down, replacing all of the wood and paneling inside, replacing the aluminum outside. the camper looked amazing....
until a giant tree branch fell during a snow storm and left a 3 foot hole in the roof! needless to say, that was the end of the camper and we are currently looking for a new one!!!!
we had bought it from a guy who used it as his hunting camper. it was older but still in decent shape. We camped with is for a few years before we made the trek to Disney....Sorry, but sounds like that trailer was ready for the morgue 'before' your trip! LOL
How old was it, and where had it been???
We've spent the last week looking at trailers and the ones we love all have had bad leaks! I am getting desperate!
Just got back from Foscue Campground in Demopolis, AL. Backed it in, leveled her out, walked around to power panel, slowlh eased up the cover and there on his little nest, with his wings spread wide was Mr. Red Wasp.Lol spewed coffee out my nose!!!!
So, as I was camping this weekend my aunt and uncle came by to spend the day with us since they live there in Demopolis. We got to talking about camping and he relayed a story to me that he said I could share here on the Dis.
He said they were going camping in the Smoky Mountains and decided to go through Birmingham instead of Hwy 459 around it. On the way through they ran across some road construction and at one point hit a pretty strong bump when they jumped up on some new asphalt. He didn't think anything about it since the camper seemed fine so they kept on going. He said he did notice other cars were honking but that the traffic was so bad he couldn't tell what they were honking about. My aunt, who is in tears laughing at the story says that she could see people on the passenger side of the truck laughing or just plain staring open mouthed as whey went by but she too did not know what was going on.
When they got out of Birmingham my uncle said that a State Trooper pulled up beside him, hit the lights and the siren and promptly pulled him over. He said when the officer approached the window and took his license, then asked for my uncle to step to the rear of the vehicle. When he asked the officer if there was a problem he said the trooper looked him straight in the face and with no hint of a smile said, "There has been a tragedy". When they got to the rear of the camper he said he saw what was wrong. On his old Travel Star the spare tire mounted on the rear of the camper on a hinged mount that allowed the tire to be lowered to the ground. Apparently the bump had caused it to fall down and he was dragging it all the way through Birmingham. He said it was like you had taken the thing to a large metal grinder.
There was only about 1/4 of the tire remaining and only one of the three bolts that mounted to rim to the frame was still intact. Everything else was gone, he said ground off at a angle perfectly matching the asphalt. He said it was smoking heavily and was making a "tinking" sound from the heat. The officer said they had received numerous calls from other motorists about a flaming camper going through Birmingham. He said he only had to follow the smoke to find them. Gave my uncle his license back and wished them a better trip.[/QUOTE