{"id":89,"date":"2020-10-01T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/?p=89"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:11:05","slug":"we-have-no-clue-what-were-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/2020\/10\/01\/we-have-no-clue-what-were-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have No Clue What We&#8217;re Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachspecialists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RV-rear-ended-1280x720.jpg\" alt=\"Taking Your First Steps to Repairing your RV after a Rear End Collision in the Dallas\/Fort Worth Area | Coach Specialists of Texas\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not our camper. But we hope to learn enough that this never happens to us&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have no visions of this blog being authoritative in any way. Maybe we will end up with some &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; (as the military likes to call it) or &#8220;best practices&#8221; once we figure something out.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, this is ALL new to us. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know we aren&#8217;t the first ones to do this. <a href=\"https:\/\/aowanders.com\/34-rv-mistakes-i-made-with-my-first-rv-camper-the-rv-lessons-i-learned\/\">We have come across a number of &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; posts<\/a>, and are trying to go in to this with our eyes open.<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss more of this in future posts, such as our new RV shopping list (might I recommend the Amazon Wishlist to organize your shopping lists?), our challenges in getting a storage space, and the shock of the registration process.<\/p>\n<p>But here are some of the things we plan to embrace as &#8220;learning something new&#8221; as we take Bojack out a couple times before it gets too cold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RV cooking<\/li>\n<li>The trailer connect\/disconnect process<\/li>\n<li>The RV community<\/li>\n<li>Hookups &#8212; from 30 amp to 50 amp to &#8220;boondocking&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance &#8212; both preventive and emergency<\/li>\n<li>Winterizing &#8212; we have to prepare the trailer in the winter to keep pipes and other systems from freezing<\/li>\n<li>Terminology &#8212; we are learning a lot from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irv2.com\/forums\/\">RV forums<\/a> we&#8217;ve joined, but <a href=\"https:\/\/rvshare.com\/blog\/rv-terms\/\">we&#8217;ve found a number of cool glossaries too<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to leave us a comment if we&#8217;re leaving anything out! Dave and I have a &#8220;never stop learning&#8221; attitude, so we welcome any and all feedback on what else we need to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have no visions of this blog being authoritative in any way. Maybe we will end up with some &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; (as the military likes to call it) or &#8220;best practices&#8221; once we figure something out. But for now, this is ALL new to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}