Where is Katie Doane?
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Bus Life
  • dLog – Doggo Advice
  • About
  • Host Us
  • Contact
Where is Katie Doane?

1️⃣ Girl 2️⃣ Goldens 🆒Nomads 🚌💨

Where is Katie Doane?
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Bus Life
  • dLog – Doggo Advice
  • About
  • Host Us
  • Contact
0
  • Camper Life

Things I wish I had known driving a new camper home.

  • 06/12/2019
Total
0
Shares
0
0
0

Buy levels and put them on at the dealers. They are the masters at quick leveling of campers. Install levels while it’s there to save you time.

You will need mirror extensions for your vehicle. My truck has lovely side bubble mirrors already in the rear-view mirrors that I assumed would be sufficient in viewing my 17 footer. It’s not.

Be super familiar with the jacks.

Mine comes with an electric jack that I immediately blew a fuse on my first attempt at unhooking it. It was because the driveway was at an angle, and before I knew it, my truck’s ass was 1 foot in the air because the ball was stuck. Be sure to put blocks under the jack for first time unhitch.

Have a location you can practice driving it around. I’m in a retirement community, which is perfect! I haven’t even attempted the thruway yet, more to come.

Your outlets in the camper do not work off the battery.

In retrospect, it makes sense (no inverter), but for a newb – you see you have power to other stuff, why wouldn’t the outlets work? They only work when you’re plugged in. Ahhhhh, well that would have been nice to know.

The battery will die in a few days of not being hooked up, even with everything off. In all the ‘extras’ I got, I wish I had gone with a second battery and solar panel hook up, hopefully one day.

My un-named camper remains in a storage lot til further notice. But I’ll tell you, trial by fire seems to be the way you learn camper things. Until the next fire!

Cheers,

xx Katie

Total
0
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 0
Related Topics
  • advice
  • camper
  • firsttime
  • newbie
  • pullbehind
  • rv
whereiskatiedoane

I drive to inspire you to live.

You May Also Like
View Post
  • Camper Life

Confessions of a (big) break

  • 09/25/2019
View Post
  • Camper Life

a short update

  • 09/09/2019
View Post
  • Camper Life

The shocking truth about camper life

  • 08/05/2019
View Post
  • Camper Life

NH for the Summer? jk, let’s do Maine

  • 07/09/2019
View Post
  • Camper Life

A minimalist buys a Camper…

  • 06/12/2019
View Post
  • Camper Life
  • Truck Life

From Truck Life to Camper Life

  • 06/12/2019
View Post
  • Camper Life

How to Install a screen door on a RV Toy Hauler

  • 06/01/2019
3 comments
  1. Kumar Shresth says:
    06/15/2019 at 10:13 am

    Hey there,
    Was checking out your blog and really loved your writings. So I wanted to ask if you would consider joining us for a bigger community based blogging platform! Let me know if you’re interested!
    Cheers!😊

    Reply
    1. whereiskatiedoane says:
      06/22/2019 at 4:53 pm

      I’d love to! As long as it’s free 🙂 thanks so much for the accolades!

      Reply
      1. Kumar Shresth says:
        06/22/2019 at 10:31 pm

        Glad to hear that😄…it’s totally free🙌

        Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

first Xmas without Trucky
3 hip hoorays for BLM in AZ
I’m all about the views
another cold, public bathroom …
Thanks for wondering where is Katie Doane?
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Bus Life
  • dLog – Doggo Advice
  • About
  • Host Us
  • Contact

Input your search keywords and press Enter.

Go to mobile version