Progress

The trailer is coming along

Every Friday, after our trailer went into production, Tammy from Escape Industries emails photos of the in-progress trailer.  The last week's photos showed an outer shell sitting on the frame.  It has wheels but no door or windows installed.  Inside, the cupboards and seats are framed in, the walls are covered, electrical wires have been run and I can just make out a couple of water pipes near the tank under the dinette seat.  It's going to be a beauty!

Two weeks today


It is exactly 2 weeks today unitl we pick up the trailer.  Time drags waiting for "the big day" but at the same time, when I look back on the last 6 weeks since we placed the order, the time has flown by.

I weighed stuff

At the moment, a lot of the stuff we've been buying for the "camping lifestyle" (remember I said it was like furnishing a house?) is sitting in our hallway.  I weighed myself dry (now there's some trailer lingo for you) then I picked up all the boxes of stuff one by one and weighed myself while holding them.  I did the math and presto! the total weight came to about 100 pounds.  There's a bit more in the car, then I estimated the weight of water, propane, bedding & food (I hope I remembered most everything) and the total came to somewhere between 500 and 600 pounds.  Wow.  With the trailer weight of 1,400 pounds the total tow weight should be in the neighbourhood of 2,000 pounds.  The car's capacity is 3,200 pounds, but I read in Trailer Life that a good rule of thumb is keep to about 70% of that.  So, even fully loaded we'll be well within our safety range.  Ain't that great?