Travails with Snoopy

We decided that since we are traveling with Darwin, the trailer needed to be named some sort of beagle. Since it's white and has large eyes (skylights) and is always the smallest unit in the campground, it's going to be Snoopy.

Snoopy has problems. Good old American construction (NOT). Although the design seems fine, the bed is comfy, the furnace and stove work great, the plumbing and the cabinetry are a problem. The first thing we discovered (when Bob took Snoopy out on a disc golf weekend) was that the three drawers don't stay closed while traveling. I assumed that they would drop down when pushed in (which they do about 1/4"). They come open while traveling. When we arrived in Port Angeles, one drawer had come out completely, emptied its contents on the floor (good thing we're mainly carrying plastic) and the corner was crunched. Another drawer came open and hung at an angle and bent the cheap metal rail the drawer runs on. Bob managed to fix them enough so we could travel and we jerry-rigged something to keep them closed using Bob's golf umbrella a bungie cord and cord. I had noticed that one drawer wasn't evenly set in the cabinet and that they didn't run very smoothly on the drawer glides. Sigh....... Maybe when we get to Tunkhannock and Markus we can fix them.

Then I discovered that water was leaking under the sink. Luckily I have everything in plastic boxes, but there is not an insignificant amount of water leaking from the pressurized clean water input pipes. This is the pits.

We've had the trailer for less than two months and have only taken it out for about 8 days and two serious things have gone wrong. We were both pretty bummed and crabby with each other. We debated whether we should return to Eugene to get it fixed, but finally called Bill (our brother-in-law in Duncan BC) and determined that we could probably get Snoopy repaired in Duncan. He's going in on Thursday.

Here's hoping that we can fix his woes.