It's Christmas time, in the Mammoth

Sunday, December 22, 2013

We brought Mammoth home last weekend, in anticipation of our trip to Durango, Colorado for some skiing.

We had a number of small projects to do, including: replacing a broken closet catch, replacing the grab handle padding with rescue tape, replacing batteries in the keyless entry keypad, replacing the step carpets, and installing a new motion sensing porch light. We got them all done during the weekend, and I worked to get things loaded for our trip during the week.

We also completed a larger project since our last trip, dual sliding doors in the basement, so we'll have easy, quick access to the water pump, bypass valves, water lines and the AC/DC converter.

New doors closed

New door open 

We had out-of-town family visiting Friday and Saturday, but we managed to get Mammoth ready. The only problem was the weather was not. The panhandle of Texas was having snow and freezing precipitation, so we decided to take a different route.

Normally, we'd head to Amarillo, but instead, we took I-20 east and then angled NE up 84 to Clovis, NM. We pulled out about 9:15, and had no issues getting through the DFW metroplex.

We stopped for a rest stop about 45 miles past Weatherford. While there, an SUV pulling a long travel trailer parked in front of us. It was a Coachman, and a bunkhouse model. I saw the family exit and return, and then they took off again. Not long down the road, we saw this same SUV and trailer, flipped on the side if the road!








It looked like the SUV was Ok, so hopefully no one was injured.

The rest of the trip was fairly easy. We got to Campers World RV Park about 6pm, got checked in and set up. We decided not to use our water system, so we could stay winterized as we traveled the rest of the way to Durango.

The kitties did well traveling, the only fussed about an hour at the beginning of the trip, then settled in and slept most of the way.








One thing that we'll have to address, we noted that while filling the fuel tank via the external tank, it seemed to take longer than usual. After some research, we think our tank's fuel filter is getting clogged. Luckily, we picked up an extra before the trip.


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