To Winterize or Not To Winterize

It's that time of the year when freezing weather might sneak up on you.  "So what?", you might say.  Well, for those who may have never thought about it, a RV is full of water and water filled plumbing.  Sitting above the ground and insulated about as well as an outhouse, it doesn't take extremely low temps to make liquid turn into a solid, an expanding pipe bustin' solid.  Ice.

Winterizing is a process of draining all the tanks and pipes and pumping special RV anti-freeze into locations where there might be some residual water.  Also, pouring anti-freeze into the sink traps.

So, we play the game.  We plan on heading out in Lil Pumpkin next week.  We haven't decided yet in which direction we'll travel.  We might go to St. Louis, in which case, we probably should go ahead and winterize. But, we're also considering heading south, maybe clear down to the Gulf, in which case we'll need water on board.

What to do, what to do?

Well, I guess winterizng and de-winterizing is easier than repairing busted plumbing.

Arkansas trip

We made a trip around a bit of Arkansas. I've consolidated the entire trip into a single page on the "Special Pages" list.  See Arkansas Travelers.