maiden trip to deception pass

I got a chuckle at the champagne bottle, nice way to celebrate your new 'pod.  Unfortunately the tank sensors just aren't that accurate - they go as cheap as possible and accuracy is sacrificed as a result.  I've found the battery and fresh water sensors are good but the gray and black tanks you have to guesstimate.  Only the toilet empties into the black tank and you can see when it starts to fill up the pipe when you flush so that's your warning to empty it right away.  Over time you'll get a sense for how long the tanks will last.  We've gone an entire week by using the bath house for most daytime restroom trips when we are already out of the 'pod anyway.  A full weekend of dry camping and always using the 'pod's toilet isn't a problem either.  The low point for the gray tank is the shower basin.  With full hookups you can leave the gray tank valve open so long showers aren't a problem (until you run out of hot water), and when dry camping we can get 4 Navy showers out of the freshwater tank - and since the fresh and gray tanks are the same size its impossible to overflow it.

thanks for the advice techntrek and outbound...that is all very helpful.

Thanks for the pictures/post!  It looks like you had fun.  Last weekend was my first out (this year) also.  Like you, I had to deal with rain.  But, like others have said, a rainy day camping is still great.