Who wants to hear about how accurately our fresh water, grey water and black water tanks read in the Journey compared to the Simba? In the Simba, it was seldom accurate because the sensors are inside the tank and things can get on them and skew the readings. Sometimes, Gary would empty our tanks and the readings on the idiot lights would still say 2/3rds full. Our tank idiot lights in our new Journey are on the outside and work by sonar. Thus, they are accurate: when Gary empties the tanks, the idiot lights say ‘0’ and they can detect subs within a distance of 5’. (Just kidding about subs but isn’t that what sonar was designed to detect?)
Who wants to read about the solidness of the top of the Journey compared to the Simba? When Gary walked on the Simba, there were some ‘dips’ up there. Now, when he walks on the top, it is solid, there are no dips and he feels as if he is walking on a level cement sidewalk.
Who want to read about the pull out shelves in the pantry in the Journey rather than the Simba’s 3’ deep flat shelves that I almost needed a flashlight to see what I had shelved in the back?
The plug-in sockets in the Journey are ever so much more convenient - we both have one on our credenza under the table - whereas in the Simba we had to stretch a long cord from the one socket on Gary’s side of the table. But, who cares besides Gary and I?
I’ve already told you about the ride in the Journey and how much smoother it is than the old Simba. I don’t need to have a steely death grip on the grab bars any more and I can relax as we head on down the road.
But, who wants to hear about these things? Isn’t is more interesting to hear about wires not hooked up and screws that don’t fit?
However, I’d like to show you one picture which illustrates just how complicated an RV is although I could probably take loads of other pictures to show this. Gary took out the bottom drawer under the kitchen counter yesterday to look behind it to see what was there. Here are the wires for stereo, TV, speakers, radio, etc., all hiding behind this bottom kitchen drawer. Now we think that this is the same configuration that is used in a 45’ RV and, in our 35’ RV these wires look more like a rats nest, since they’re all bunched up. But it illustrates how things are hidden in the strangest places but they all help the think work.
Our RV is a home: it has all the same systems such as plumbing, electricity, heating/cooling, washer/dryer and others but then it adds electric awnings and steps which all go out and then retract, 3 slides which make the house bigger (imagine sliding your dining room out to fit in the 36 people you’ve invited for dinner) a diesel engine which gets us around almost wherever we want to go (imagine moving your home down the highway for your next 2-week vacation to the Florida Keys). Put this all together into a 35’ x 10’ box and you’ve got a pretty complicated sophisticated piece of machinery. And, then, we stuff it full of our possessions and bounce it down the highway towing a Jeep. Whoo-eee.
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