Since we’ve left home on August 1st we’ve been at two RV parks.  The first was William Heise in Julian where we had electricity but no water except what was in our holding tanks.  We had to break camp and tow the trailer to the dumpsite a couple of times and we refilled our tanks at the same time.

Our second RV park, Sequoia RV Ranch in Three Rivers, CA, has water and electricity which is an improvement, but still no dumpsite at our camp.  So, while we aren’t limited to using what’s in our holding tanks, we are limited by what our grey and black water tanks can hold.  So, once again we are having to break camp and tow the trailer to a dumpsite to dump the grey/black tanks when they get full.  We’ve done it once and we’re trying to limit our water use so we don’t have to do it again till this Friday when we head out to our third destination.

Luckily the RV park has a bathhouse with showers (drop in two quarters and get 4 minutes of water) and every couple of days we head over to that.  We have taken a few showers in our own bathroom, but again we’re watching our water usage.

Our next couple of stops have full hookups so we won’t have to break camp to dump the tanks.  Nice, but more expensive!

The upside is we’re getting lots of experience at breaking camp (stow everything, pull in the slides, retract the awning, raise the stabilizer bars, unplug the electricity and water, hitch the trailer to the truck and drive away) and doing the reverse when we get back to our site.

All in all, it’s a small price to pay for being able to go where we want, when we want, and stay for as long as we want.