Greetings,
We are at LA Bay after crossing the border at Tecate, on to Laguna Hanson for two nights, Mex 3/5 to San Felipe for two and then Gonzaga Bay for three nights. Our Grandby is doing fine with the exception of ripping off the right rear jack somewhere on the famous Huerfanito grade. We didn’t even feel it go! Discovered it missing when we got to Gonzaga Bay. When I discovered it missing, I also noticed that the right front jack had “auto-extended” itself about 18”. I’m wondering if the lost one did that too and got low enough to catch a hummock in the road. This segment of road was very rough but not so narrow that we coulda caught a tree stump in passing. (see pix)
We had a chance to use the Grandby’s heater extensively at Laguna Hanson (5500’). It was in the low 30’s there at night. The heater heats up the camper very quickly but, without the insulation package (at home in the garage! -- I know, but we were thinking warm and sunny Baja; right?) it also cools very fast. We got chased out of Laguna Hanson by snow! Baja always has something up its sleeve.
Right before we left home I installed the relighter for the Norcold fridg as described in these pages (thanks for that, Chinle). The relighter seems to work pretty well except that I find it sometimes continuously sparking even though the pilot is lit. The propane fridge didn’t work worth a damn at Laguna Hanson (elevation); then worked OK at Gonzaga Bay for a while, but is now not even cool with the pilot running fine and the dial on max cold. I am really getting tired of trying to cope with the Norcold. The cost of the quality electric fridges is beginning to look like much less of an obstacle. I wish they made one that would drop in in place of the 3-Way.
Our solar electric set-up (described in earlier posts to this forum) is working great. (Making 5.3 amps at the moment.) It gives us more than enough to run the CD player and computer as much as we want and the lights on all evening.
Our cat-litter toilet is also working out very well. Thanks again to this group for that.
This is our first extended trip in the Grandby and we still haven’t got it worked out how to pack: food containers, clothes containers, bedding containers, etc. We have learned that on rough roads, everything seeks the lowest level and boxes without lids distribute their contents evenly over the floor and then over the layers of previously distributed material.
More later, Hasta Luego, Bob
We are at LA Bay after crossing the border at Tecate, on to Laguna Hanson for two nights, Mex 3/5 to San Felipe for two and then Gonzaga Bay for three nights. Our Grandby is doing fine with the exception of ripping off the right rear jack somewhere on the famous Huerfanito grade. We didn’t even feel it go! Discovered it missing when we got to Gonzaga Bay. When I discovered it missing, I also noticed that the right front jack had “auto-extended” itself about 18”. I’m wondering if the lost one did that too and got low enough to catch a hummock in the road. This segment of road was very rough but not so narrow that we coulda caught a tree stump in passing. (see pix)
We had a chance to use the Grandby’s heater extensively at Laguna Hanson (5500’). It was in the low 30’s there at night. The heater heats up the camper very quickly but, without the insulation package (at home in the garage! -- I know, but we were thinking warm and sunny Baja; right?) it also cools very fast. We got chased out of Laguna Hanson by snow! Baja always has something up its sleeve.
Right before we left home I installed the relighter for the Norcold fridg as described in these pages (thanks for that, Chinle). The relighter seems to work pretty well except that I find it sometimes continuously sparking even though the pilot is lit. The propane fridge didn’t work worth a damn at Laguna Hanson (elevation); then worked OK at Gonzaga Bay for a while, but is now not even cool with the pilot running fine and the dial on max cold. I am really getting tired of trying to cope with the Norcold. The cost of the quality electric fridges is beginning to look like much less of an obstacle. I wish they made one that would drop in in place of the 3-Way.
Our solar electric set-up (described in earlier posts to this forum) is working great. (Making 5.3 amps at the moment.) It gives us more than enough to run the CD player and computer as much as we want and the lights on all evening.
Our cat-litter toilet is also working out very well. Thanks again to this group for that.
This is our first extended trip in the Grandby and we still haven’t got it worked out how to pack: food containers, clothes containers, bedding containers, etc. We have learned that on rough roads, everything seeks the lowest level and boxes without lids distribute their contents evenly over the floor and then over the layers of previously distributed material.
More later, Hasta Luego, Bob
