Full-timing

We finally made a DECISION!!!

Originally posted by dbrownalive How did you deal with the tiny refrigerator?   Dan and Leeann Stevensville, MI

We use a good ice chest/cooler. But you can get a week of "needs to be cooled" groceries in there.. We do it all the time.

For long trips, or trips where we need to take extra food for events, we use the cooler, with dry ice if needed, for that stuff.

A couple years ago when we hosted the ERU, we took a box of 100 Nathan's, couple of venison back straps, steaks, 6 thick cut pork chops, and some other assorted frozen stuff, all loaded frozen, 15 pounds of dry ice. Loaded on Monday, Yeti sat in the dome in hot weather the whole time.. on Saturday we had to hack the dogs apart, AFTER they sat in the box on the counter for 6 hours or so..

There were 4 of us in our 171 for years.  We spent most of the time when camping outside.  Only went inside to sleep/shower/toilet.  The problem came when we started touring and there were times at truck stops and Walmarts when we were inside for 10-12 hours.  Then it was too cramped.

Here's my quandary:

We tow with a 2000 Toyota Tacoma 3.44WD  with 5 speed manual transmission.  While we have camped in relatively cold weather--brief periods of night-time temps in upper 20s and 30s, our camping and boating goal is to escape winter, so we head south.  We haven't had to winterize while camping.  We like boondocking but have found few places where we could do that.  We find that State parks and COE campgrounds are usually better than privately owned ones.