Camper Casey still here

[Casey Freswick]

It has been too long, thought I would give an update in travel 2024. I am totally enjoying the reliability of my 300 watt solar, 300 Amp battery pack, and 3,000 watt inverter running all 12 volt and an electric only fridge. With normal sun my system is balanced. I often boon dock for several days. I was down to 39% after 4 days of almost no sun.

This has been another busy travel year. I am at the beginning of a two week outing with family in Nebraska. After this trip we will have put on 7,500 for this year. This follows an 8,000 mile year last year.

We had one major problem. In July, traveling with friends in NW IW, we got a call that our camper was smoking. We were literally right by a exit, we got off and discovered the passenger side wheel was crooked, the bearing was burned up, the hub was shot, the brakes were gone, but apart from some spurs the axel was OK. I had all the tools to fix it, but had to go 1 hour one way to get the parts. After 5 hours from the initial problem, we were back on the road. I also replaced my tires during this trip. I SHOULD HAVE replaced them before, but thought one more trip would be OK. I had endurance tires, I liked them, but they had over 30,000 in 6 years. So yes, I should have replaced them. I have now spent over 6 weeks in the camper the last couple of years averaging 5,000 plus miles. We are hoping to take a drive to Alaska in 2026. Hope you all had a great year.