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Loaded & Ready
OK,
here’s one of the biggest PIA that most of us have to deal with.
Getting the bus loaded, stocked and ready for the trip!It’s
a nightmare and I’m only 100′ from the bus barn. Food, clothes (warm
& cold at times) footwear, personal hygiene items (real important
for Jon) meds, computer, mobile devices, power cords, beverages and
the list goes on and on. There has to be a better way.I
have a friend with a plastic coach that has completely outfitted his
coach with everything he needs except the essentials such as food and
meds. They keep an entire duplication of most day to day necessities
such as pants, shirts, jackets, coats, underwear, socks, toilet
items, razor, you name, they have it. All they have to do is load up
the food and the Geritol and they’re on their way. They never return home with laundry, the make sure it’s done while on the road so it never leaves the coach.Sounds
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We hope to go to Jon’s region this weekend, Townsend Tn for just 2
or 3
nights. All I needed to do was load a few clothes, adjust the brakes,
wash the bus, and cobble up and I do mean cobble a mount for my new LCD
TV. Finally getting those 1988 TV’s out of there. I started yesterday,
Monday. Got plenty of time right? I just realized my tag will expire the
day I leave for the return trip. So that’s added to the list. I’m going
to take my bike so I thought I better check it out. You guessed it,
won’t start, I left the switch on. Battery was flat and won’t take a
charge. Add replace motorcycle battery to list.
The cobbled up TV mount didn’t go so well, it’ll probably take another
evening to finish. I could go on, but it end up like usual, I’ll be
working past midnight before we leave the next morning.Ken
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Tom, your plastic coach buddy has the right idea. Having split residences(Wi & Fl) going on two decades, and deciding long ago not to carry stuff back and forth, made it easy to do the same thing with the bus. The bus is always plugged in and ready to go with everything on it except perishable food and prescription meds. We usually are able to leave inside of 30 min.
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We keep the bus stocked with everything except food. With the exception of certain items we are good to go. Most of what we load goes in the refrigterator.
The bus has its own computer, clothes, meds, etc. and if we unload clothes to launder when we get home, they go back in the coach.
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Bus barn we built is right next to house plugged in and ready at all times with everything we need. Eat out when we are on the road except snackies. Have 2 burner built in flush electric stove top in corion counter that has never been used. Wife says when that camper pulls out she’s on vacation.
Fridge is always stocked with beer and running.
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“ have a friend with a plastic coach”
Is a H3 a plastic bus? 🙂
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I knew that would catch up to me Les!:)
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I’m not a survivalist, but living in Los Angeles it is prudent to be ready for calamity at all times. We keep a duplicate of pretty much everything from our stationary house in the bus, and keep it stocked with non-perishible food and bottled water. No matter how late is is when we return from a trip we fill up with fuel and water, and we routinely circulate the and refill the canned goods and pantry items. (We also keep a stash that will last at least three days at home.) Even if we never have to use it as an emergency shelter, it makes it so easy to head out on a trip, especially since our storage site is 30 miles from home. Typically all we need to bring from home for a trip of any length is a cooler full of fresh food, a few items of clothing, about a dozen computers, tablets and ipods, my camera equipment, and the dog. Depending on destination, we will add ski gear or portable kayak. Bikes are on the roof of the Jeep.
I recognize that we drag around a ridiculous amount of weight, but the bus is not overweight, so why not? We can decide at 3pm Friday to head out for the weekend after work. Works for us.
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