frozen hose | Home Sweet Home on Wheels

Never thought I’d say that! But I guess you learn from everything, so thankful I should be!

Here’s a timeline:

Wednesday night we hit Reno’s Sports Bar for some food and holiday shenanigans.
Got home and forgot to drip the faucet (even though our water hose is heated and insulated, it will freeze if it’s not dripping)
4am Thanksgiving morning – woke up to a frozen water hose… Caught it in time, brought it inside, thawed it out. (It was only frozen at the connection point between two hoses, about a half inch was exposed with no insulation.)
Went back to sleep, with the faucet dripping!
Made a delicious Thanksgiving feast!
Black Friday: woke up to water in the kitchen sink and tub, and a frozen sewer hose!
Frozen poop tube pieces…

What I’ve learned:

No matter how much fun, or booze, we have: REMEMBER TO DRIP THE FAUCET!
When the temperature drops to 2 degrees, or thereabouts, we shouldn’t be camping!
Or we should insulate the doggone poop tube as well…
One grey tank is for the kitchen sink, and one grey tank is for the bathroom and washing machine.
The grey holding tanks have no back-flow preventer, and will back up into both tanks simultaneously if they have nowhere to drain…
And finally, roaster ovens are the way to go when Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner in an RV!

Maybe I won’t have to use this cold weather knowledge for quite a while because we might be heading south sometime this week… This whole “getting dark at 4:45pm” is for the birds! Come on summertime!