We had a rough travel day to this campground east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Somehow, our steps wriggled off the retaining pin and dropped down during travel. It could have been worse. We noticed it at a gas station and spent about an hour bending the steps back into place, sufficient to get them folded in and stored again
Then we devised a temporary solution to tie them off with trimmer string and a couple of wire twists. After the temporary solution, we made it to the campground, which was at best just okay.
The good part was that an unusual cold front came through and allowed us to relax comfortably outside and then sleep with the windows down. We both slept a solid eight hours before waking up to a beautiful dawn.
We left early the next morning for Oklahoma..
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Trailer steps! Problematic no matter which way you twist them! Forget to fold them in and they get violently ripped off by the nearest obstruction. Automatic power steps fail to automatic and cause your dad to do a 3' high faceplant - not good for his old body! The Sisters' trailer is so high normal steps won't do so they have a one-piece ladder-step that extends out 4 feet and folds up inside the door, so to get in their trailer at the urban storage yard or store parking lot they have to hook up and drag it partway out of its slot, blocking acces for everybody else.
Where are those damned anti-gravity boots we've been promiced?!
The steps stayed in place for most of the day. Near as I can figure, the steps must have vibrated past the little nub on the pin and dropped down during the last few minutes of travel. Otherwise, the steps would have been a lot more banged up and come out earlier in the day. The permanent solution was added a couple of days later with a pin and a clip (instead of the little nub on the pin).
On the Scamp we just had a homemade wooden platform that we manually put on the ground. Never had a problem with that thing. Bigger, more complex camper means more things that can go wrong. Still love the bigger, more comfortable bed.
In my boat mechanic days, having several years earlier sold the attorney a 30' Sea Ray, the boss was trying to sell him a new one. His reasonable rejoinder has stayed w me over the years. It was, "I'm not ready. It's taken me this long to get this one rigged right." Onward!
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