I hit the road at 9AM:
I’m sad that I’m traveling alone this summer:
I decided to just keep going. I drove for 16 hours, traversing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and into Wisconsin. I overnighted at the Cracker Barrel in Kenosha:
See the trip map for today’s drive.
The front driver truck camper tie down pulled out when I applied tension to it. To fix the problem, I first removed the broken water heater:
The wood into which the tie down was mounted is in bad shape:
I reinforced the wooden frame and installed a new tie down, then used the water heater cover to seal the hole where the water heater used to be:
Looks good:
One of the challenges of RVing the rural West is the lack of cellular phone service. Starlink provides high-speed, low-latency internet connectivity anywhere the dish can see the sky.
To minimize the risk of having the dish stolen, I mounted the dish into an old tire that I bolted to the roof:
From the ground, it looks like just a spare tire stored on the roof:
Works well!
Last year, I built a wooden floor for the truck that is installed where the back seat normally is installed so I could carry more cargo. I modified the wooden floor so that it stores a 45-gallon water bladder:
I can still carry cargo on top of this, but now I can carry 45 gallons of extra water as well!
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