1- When you move to an island for three months any form of metal will rust! To combat this one is supposed to spray WD-40 over EVERYTHING to prevent the moisture from touching the metal…..Schneider’s did the WD-40 trick about three weeks into the journey and now have a light case of rust covered with a slimy film of WD-40. Note to self…. do it sooner.
2- The beach is amazing and is beautiful but it’s not our forever jam. We are so thankful for our stent there but deep in our bones we are not islanders. When I say I miss trees I mean like there is a piece of my soul missing. So fun to visit but we have zero desire to live somewhere like that forever.
3- Propane. When traveling down the road our fridge can be kept cool via propane. The oven and stove use propane and the furnace is propane as well. After not having filled our two propane tanks since mid September, having traveled for two days with the fridge using propane and having reached the Smoky Mountains on a cool day using the furnace in the early evening….it was around 10pm when we realized our propane had run out and we had zero means of getting it re-filled until the morning. So on the coldest night in our camper thus far we had no furnace! The low for the evening was 33 with a real feel of 29. Sooooo we put a sleeping bag out on the floor (more insulation) in the boy’s room and gave them the space heater. They remained warm and even “hot” per Big M. I heated our bed with a heating pad and we both put on some extra clothes and slept just fine. In the morning the inside temp was a brisk 50. We baked cinnamon rolls with the electric convection oven and all ate in the boys room picnic style. The tanks got refilled, we got warm, and we made a memeory. Moral of that story- buy a $10 gauge to put on your tanks to keep on eye on how much propane you have!
4- Truck wash lines….when you have to go to a Semi Truck “car” wash to get your pickup and camper washed (to get all the sand and salt water grime off) and you pull in line and there are only three vehicles in front of you…don’t assume in will take oh maybe 30 mins or less. Just go ahead and count on an hour and 40 minutes added to you 5 hour drive time. We don’t regret getting it washed but boy oh boy we did not expect that delay on a travel day!
5- Cotton fields were everywhere! Our campground in South Carolina was right next to a cotton field. On one of our walks we went to look at it and the actual crop was taller than expected, 2-3 feet tall and then later that day we got to see it getting cut! Looks a little different than the crops we’re used to seeing in Kansas!
