Note: this post was written after the conclusion of Passover.

Hello again!  The first two days of Passover were wonderful.  We had my parents over the Passover Seder on both nights.  I suspect ours was one of the few RV seders in the world.  Before Passover, I built an extra leaf for the RV table to we could seat six at the table, which worked pretty well.

Last night, we moved the RV back to BLM land.  Chol Hamoed, the intermediate days of Passover, has a quasi-holiday status, so we didn’t engage in any modifications today.  Below is a photo of our 5th wheel hitch lock which arrived in the last few days.  It prevents the RV from being hitched up and driven off while we’re gone:

A few days ago I moved over our electric meter (the white unit in the upper left corner of the photo), which we’re using to track how much of MKT’s power we consumed:

Because this new RV has so much more interior airspace than the old RV, it comes with two air conditioners.  Only the smaller of the two can run on a typical household outlet, so Passover did get a bit warm in the RV, even with the one air conditioner running fulltime during the day.

Today my parents took us up to Bonnie Springs, an old west theme park (I’m being generous here) outside of Las Vegas.  Here Dad gets driving directions from the characters:

They put on an 1830s-style melodrama.  Like in the mining camps of yore, all the parts were played by men:

We then went to the simulated hangin’:

They had a gold stamp mill on site:

Put a dollar in this fellow and he’ll sing a song for you:

There was also a small zoo onsite:

Most of the targets in the shooting gallery didn’t work:

There was also a little train that went down to the lower parking area and back:

One visit is enough for Bonnie Springs.

Today I brought over the pair of Group 29 batteries from the old RV and took the pair of Group 24 batteries that came with the new RV and put them in the old RV.  Since the Group 29s are quite a bit larger, they don’t fit in the battery compartment, so I moved the batteries to the forward compartment.  Batteries outgas hydrogen when charging, so I built a box for them with a vent to the original battery compartment, which is ventilated.  This prevents hydrogen gas from accumulating in the front compartment, which could lead to an explosion:

I also installed an indoor/outdoor wireless thermostat.  When they say about Las Vegas “It’s a dry heat”, they’re not kidding:

Here are a couple interior views of the new RV.  The kids have mostly moved in:

M’s half of the kid’s room:

Trish has been cooking for Passover for the last couple of days.  Observant Jews are careful to eliminate any leavened products from their ownership for Passover, so our purchase of the new RV at this time was quite fortuitous, as the new RV has never had food in it.  We will sell our old RV to a non-Jew for the duration of the holiday, so we don’t have to carefully clean out the old RV.  Tonight we did our final search for Chometz, so we’re ready for Passover starting tomorrow night!

Moving our belongings between the two RVs out here on BLM land continues:

I moved over the propane plumbing that allows our generator to run off propane:

Good Shabbos from BLM land just South of Las Vegas!

I moved over the inverter and the solar controller.  There’s so much more room to work in here!

The first step was to remove the three TVs that were installed, starting with the kid’s room:

We installed towel bars and TP holders:

I moved over the solar panels, leaving the smaller controller and its single panel behind:

This is going to take a while.