Full Time RV Living | Tire Blow Outs, Flooding Kitchens, Slipping Jacks, OH MY!
There are challenges to every lifestyle (and don't get me wrong we were TERRIFIED to take the leap), but the amount of freedom and true LIVING we get to do is unthinkable. We have gone to places and explored places people typically only read about in books.
In our 2 months of actual traveling, we have had 3 MAJOR problems (I like to call them opportunities for growth) living this lifestyle. Here is just one (stay tuned for the other 2!) :
Growth 1 | From the first time we moved our RV 10 miles down the road, Christian's grandpa had been POUNDING the importance of tire pressure to air up the spare tire into our heads. So, naturally we blew it off. 🤦🏽♀️ When we got to a campground in Texas, we decided to purchase a tire pressure gauge. Christian checked the tire pressure and all of them were the same, EXCEPT the passenger side back tire. It was about 5 psi lower. I looked at Christian and said do you think it'll be okay? They said, "Yeah it's only a few off" We packed up all of our things and hit the road. On our way through Texas, we noticed the roads were absolutely horrible (assuming this was because of the recent Texas Blizzard) We kept trucking along though! We were about 30 minutes out from our next destination in Texas when we heard a HUGE boom. I looked in the fast lane and a semi had just passed us. I looked at C and said "was that him?!" The facial expression I got was enough to know, that was 1000% us. NOT the semi. I looked back and there are pieces of tire and smoke going EVERYWHERE. We pulled off and got out. At this point we are both like UHHHH........
I look at C and all I can think to say is.... "what was the tire the was low this morning?!" Sure enough...
The mechanic comes and changes the tire on the side of this busy highway for us we are back on our way.
Not 2 minutes further, our 'check trailer wiring' warning came on in the truck. ...great...
We get out and check it out and the blown tire has torn the break lines off the trailer.
We end up rolling into the campground exhausted about thinking of what we are going to do. C walks into the office to check in and they come back out and is still talking to the woman in the office. She gave us some business cards to check into and we went on our way.
She comes back over to our spot 10 minutes later and says "I didn't want to offer his services up, but my husband just graduated from RV technician school yesterday and he is about 10 minutes out"
Wait a second, did we just hear what we think we just heard? He has been away for 2 weeks at RV TECHNICIAN SCHOOL and he is ten minutes out now?
He gets to the campground expecting the worse. Typically when tires pop they blow out the entire floors/brakes/entire sides of RVs. We got CRAZY lucky and only our brakes were effected.
In the process of trying to figure out if we had a wire connection to the actual brakes, we figured out we hadn't even been using the trailer brakes. We had been solely relying on the truck brakes to stop the truck AND the trailer!
He gets all of the brakes off and he looks at Christian and says "Your brakes look brand new" C said "That's because I apparently haven't been using them!!" We are forever grateful for the owners of that campground. They were so kind and SO generous, we will forever be in awe of the situation. They were for sure the light we needed.
The take away: Always check your tire pressure, get roadside assistance, make sure you have plenty of food easily accessible. 🙃
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