Do you have an elephant in your living room? I do. No, I haven’t been drinking and he isn’t pink with purple polka dots. After several years of living in my travel trailer alone, I now have someone else onboard with me for awhile and am seeing the dark side of more than one person living and traveling in an RV. I now also firmly believe that some people are just not meant to live in an RV or at least not with others in an RV.
Take my elephant for example. Let’s call him Jumbo. Jumbo trips over everything and rams his shoulder into everything. I have had to rearrange much of my trailer to suit Jumbo just like child-proofing a house. I never had an issue with any of this and have no problem knowing exactly what is around me, how high things are, etc. But not Jumbo. He stomps through the RV like it is a land-tied house paying no attention whatsoever and then wonders why he gets hurt or things fall down. He has removed my square shelf in the bedroom and changed it to one that is rounded after ramming into it numerous times. My cat box had to move. My space heater had to be moved. My kitchen towel has to move. My bed clothes I normally hang in the bathroom have to move. If he gets his way, even the poor paper towels will have to move to survive him. The dang cat thankfully has her own condo I built for her under the couch so she can get out of the elephant’s way.
Then there’s the tidal wave that flows through the RV every time Jumbo walks. You don’t notice the movement when only one person is in the RV but it sure gets obvious and quite annoying when another person is added. Putting down all jacks on the ground is even more important now for stability, even for one night, and regular readjustment is a must. I am also looking into adding more solid wheel chocks to lock the movement of the wheels as I am told this will help considerably. But then, nothing can help when someone plops on the couch (yes, even I do that sometimes). UPDATE: Got the X-Chock wheel locks and installed them. This issue is now resolved. The X-chocks work wonderfully well! No more ocean surfing in the RV for me. Get some! (I have included a link to the cheapest place I found them which also had free shipping when I bought them. Yes, I am affiliated with them too.)
