CuRVWander

  And the maintenance continues.  Last post I was gearing up to replace the entry steps.  They have since been selected, ordered and delivered whereupon I was then challenged with retrofitting a set of steps that were never meant to be used in the frame of my rig. First order of business was to measure the differences and then decide how to build the adapters.  Lucky for me the bolt holes for mounting the steps to the frame were the same size and both were 4" on center.  But the width of the new steps was the hang-up.  They were nearly 4" narrower than the original steps.  Time to get creative. The original steps looked good when they were young. But after twelve years of heavy use they had become dysfunctional and ratty looking. Spacers would need to be built to span the gap between the frame box and the step assembly.  I acquired several  six-foot lengths of steel bars of various thicknesses and mixed and matched until I got the thicknesses...

 Since October it has been hard to tell that we are full-time RV travelers.  We dropped anchor at our daughter's family home and that's where we've been ever since.  We're starting our sixth month without moving.  But it's all going as planned.  We sought to spend the winter with our grandkids in close proximity and that has been accomplished.  And as luck would have it we had relatively easy access to replacement equipment our rig was in sore need of.  Some of it we knew about, some we didn't. The first thing to crop up was a bad circuit board on our water heater.  It was the "brains" of the water heater and we could not run on electric or propane, it was totally down for the count.  Most places we have been it wouldn't have been a big deal but in our North Carolina location the well water coming to us was running at about 35 deg F.  That's uncomfortable to wash hands in, let alone take a shower.  I didn't waste any time in getting...