BigBrother-84 Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 This morning we rented a 2-person kayak and went for a 2 mile paddle before packing up and driving home. As we say here, «take a kayak!» Nice park! And you’re right, we too often neglect to visit the nice spots in our own backyard. Maybe nothing to see with your sickness, but they recently talked about an increase in numbers of whooping cough and Covid in Quebec. Knowing the speed of microbes spread, Ontario isn’t so far… and Minnesota the next door. Take care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing Special Posted July 22 Author Share Posted July 22 .... Knowing the speed of microbes spread, Ontario isn’t so far… and Minnesota the next door. Take care! Yeah, but Ontario is huge! (at least east-to-west) The eastern edge of Ontario, where it borders Quebec, is near the eastern edge of New York. And we were way over on the western edge of Ontario, almost to Manitoba. That's a lot of pretty sparsely populated country there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing Special Posted August 9 Author Share Posted August 9 .... As for the propane leak, I'd hope that is a fairly easy thing to solve. But solve it must be! It turned out to be a very easy thing to solve. I just handed over my credit card! I'm busy enough this summer that I didn't want to mess with this, especially since we have another trip coming up in a few weeks. So I took it in. They found a hole in the hose to the fridge, so they replaced the hose. I was also a little concerned / annoyed that the propane detector hadn't thought there was a problem. I was told that they have about a 5 year life span and mine was 9 years old, so they also put a new propane detector in it. I'm still wondering a little about the location of the detector. It's probably about 10" above the floor, under the dinette table, about 10' away from all of the sources of propane (the fridge, furnace, stove and water heater are all in one area). Especially since the entry is between the possible leak locations and the detector, giving the heavier-than-air propane a place to collect before getting over to the detector. It seems to me that having the detector closer to the floor, and closer to the possible leaks would be better. Still, Lesley detected the leak while standing with her "detector" much higher than the one from the motorhome. So it's probably fine (as long as it works!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 .... As for the propane leak, I'd hope that is a fairly easy thing to solve. But solve it must be! It turned out to be a very easy thing to solve. I just handed over my credit card! I'm busy enough this summer that I didn't want to mess with this, especially since we have another trip coming up in a few weeks. So I took it in. They found a hole in the hose to the fridge, so they replaced the hose. I was also a little concerned / annoyed that the propane detector hadn't thought there was a problem. I was told that they have about a 5 year life span and mine was 9 years old, so they also put a new propane detector in it. I'm still wondering a little about the location of the detector. It's probably about 10" above the floor, under the dinette table, about 10' away from all of the sources of propane (the fridge, furnace, stove and water heater are all in one area). Especially since the entry is between the possible leak locations and the detector, giving the heavier-than-air propane a place to collect before getting over to the detector. It seems to me that having the detector closer to the floor, and closer to the possible leaks would be better. Still, Lesley detected the leak while standing with her "detector" much higher than the one from the motorhome. So it's probably fine (as long as it works!). Glad you got it solved. But I'm with you, the location of the leak detector is not good. As you said, it would be easy for the propane to pool in the step well. And with the detector 10" off the floor you could have a whole lot of gas built up before it senses it. This propane detector says "Propane gas is denser than air, and will usually accumulate close to the floor. Therefore, RV Safe should be placed near the floor in order to quickly detect propane gas leaks." But they don't quantify "near". This one says "Propane is heavier than air. For propane gas detection, install this alarm from 4 to 20 inches off the floor." I think I'd install a new one near the source(s) and ~6" off the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpin Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 .... As for the propane leak, I'd hope that is a fairly easy thing to solve. But solve it must be! It turned out to be a very easy thing to solve. I just handed over my credit card! I'm busy enough this summer that I didn't want to mess with this, especially since we have another trip coming up in a few weeks. So I took it in. They found a hole in the hose to the fridge, so they replaced the hose. I was also a little concerned / annoyed that the propane detector hadn't thought there was a problem. I was told that they have about a 5 year life span and mine was 9 years old, so they also put a new propane detector in it. I'm still wondering a little about the location of the detector. It's probably about 10" above the floor, under the dinette table, about 10' away from all of the sources of propane (the fridge, furnace, stove and water heater are all in one area). Especially since the entry is between the possible leak locations and the detector, giving the heavier-than-air propane a place to collect before getting over to the detector. It seems to me that having the detector closer to the floor, and closer to the possible leaks would be better. Still, Lesley detected the leak while standing with her "detector" much higher than the one from the motorhome. So it's probably fine (as long as it works!). Yes, glad it's fixed. I never had a propane detector in a RV. That's good to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing Special Posted Monday at 10:50 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 10:50 PM We're home now from our most recent motorhome trip only to find you all moved while we were gone! (I'm kidding, I wasn't surprised by the forum move, obviously that was well announced ahead of time, but it happened while I was radio-silent on vacation, so I'm just getting to it now.) This was yet another trip to Walt Disney World. Looking back, I went to Disney World two or three times as a kid, once with Lesley before we had kids, three times with our kids, and this was now the sixth time as empty-nesters! We (sort of) went down with some friends. We left home about the same time, but they added a stop at Mammoth Cave on the way down, so we didn't meet up with them until we were at Disney. And they hadn't taken today off work, so they got up earlier than us on Saturday and drove harder to get home in two days while we took parts of three. So we didn't travel with them, but we did spend most of the week together while we were there. This couple is actually how Lesley and I met. Dean was one of my room mates and Karin had been friends with Lesley since 2nd grade. So I met Lesley when Karin brought her to church volleyball. Anyway, after driving through Atlanta one too many times I had decided that we would never do that again. So on this trip we went through Birmingham and across southern Alabama to catch I75 in southern GA. Coming home we took I10 across the FL panhandle and then up through Birmingham, which is the route we'll do on future trips. It was interesting how close the time and distance were to the Atlanta route. Comparing to our last trip there, coming home through Atlanta was 1,593 miles in 30 hours 30 minutes. This trip home through Birmingham was 1,638 miles in 29 hours 49 minutes. With avoiding the stress of Atlanta, this is how we’ll keep doing this trip. The drive went easy. There were a lot of construction zones, but never any backups. We did have to slow down to about 35 mph for 10 – 20 miles a couple of times as we drove through the tailings of hurricane Francine on the way down, but it was just heavy rain, so not so bad overall. We did achieve a milestone of sorts on this trip. We topped 87,000 miles on the odometer, which means we’ve driven the motorhome more miles than the 42,837 it had when we bought it! Otherwise there was really no adventure, which is what you hope for in a trip like this. But here’s a picture of our camp site. And since you probably can’t read the sign in front, the top line says “welcome to our wheel estate!” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted Tuesday at 01:13 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 01:13 AM 2 hours ago, Nothing Special said: “welcome to our wheel estate!” I like that! (And how easy peasy it is to quote that on Invision.) So glad you had a safe and easy trip. But I'm jealous about the ability to do Birmingham instead of Atlanta. To go to Charleston, where our daughter lives, we get to go through both of them! (But our son called the other night and begged us to fly on our trip to FL and then SC in December, and we are doing that so will avoid both of them.) Yes, we did move while you were gone, but we left a forwarding address. Like our new digs? We brought our emoticons with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBrother-84 Posted Tuesday at 03:45 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:45 AM Man, you were a crowd in that RV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing Special Posted Wednesday at 02:26 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 02:26 AM That's the same crowd that we've been taking to Disney pretty much since we got the motorhome. I explained them in the first post in this thread (from one of our 2021 trips there), but Minnie and Mickey represent Lesley and me. The big and little Plutos are Kenzie and Ellie, our two dogs. Chip and Dale are our two sons, Lady and Stitch are our two daughters-in-law (and both would be offended if we switched which character went with which daughter-in-law!). And Sven and Olaf are just too cute to leave out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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