fireball
Senior Member
Greetings all,
We are leaving our days of ground tent camping behind and are buying a used 2014 Hawk, meeting the seller in Nashville and taking the long way home on a short 4 day trip. My wife, our 8 month old son, and our 90# siberian husky will be along for the trip. I'd like to make sure my wife has a good of time as possible to ensure many future trips, so have a few questions for the Wise Collective:
1. Propane - I am guessing with two tanks I can use the 2nd tank that isn't hooked up to the camper to run our usual camp stove? Is this correct? I plan on bringing our usual camp cookware set, camp table and propane stove to do our cooking outside.
2. Bedding - for a 3-4 night first trip, should we try to do anything with the bedding or just bring our sleeping bags? Our son will sleep between us up top. The weather should be pretty decent so I am not too worried about temperature. It sounds like lots of folks use various egg crate mattress toppers or similar, not sure if we should try OEM first, or plan on getting a topper from the start.
3. 110V - is the 110V outlet in the Hawk just on when hooked to shore power? i.e. a converter would not be standard equipment? We have a converter in our Land Cruiser which we've previously used on camping outings and the only time it gets used is to grind our coffee beans in the morning. So I am really asking if we need to bring whole beans or pre-ground!
4. Tools - the camper is 2 years old and has been used 6 nights. Anything special I need to bring outside of my normal small tool kit?
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks!
We are leaving our days of ground tent camping behind and are buying a used 2014 Hawk, meeting the seller in Nashville and taking the long way home on a short 4 day trip. My wife, our 8 month old son, and our 90# siberian husky will be along for the trip. I'd like to make sure my wife has a good of time as possible to ensure many future trips, so have a few questions for the Wise Collective:
1. Propane - I am guessing with two tanks I can use the 2nd tank that isn't hooked up to the camper to run our usual camp stove? Is this correct? I plan on bringing our usual camp cookware set, camp table and propane stove to do our cooking outside.
2. Bedding - for a 3-4 night first trip, should we try to do anything with the bedding or just bring our sleeping bags? Our son will sleep between us up top. The weather should be pretty decent so I am not too worried about temperature. It sounds like lots of folks use various egg crate mattress toppers or similar, not sure if we should try OEM first, or plan on getting a topper from the start.
3. 110V - is the 110V outlet in the Hawk just on when hooked to shore power? i.e. a converter would not be standard equipment? We have a converter in our Land Cruiser which we've previously used on camping outings and the only time it gets used is to grind our coffee beans in the morning. So I am really asking if we need to bring whole beans or pre-ground!
4. Tools - the camper is 2 years old and has been used 6 nights. Anything special I need to bring outside of my normal small tool kit?
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks!