My husband is working at Yellowstone NP this summer, living in our Jayco TT in an RV park with full hookups, and I have flown out to spend a couple of weeks. This is our first RV experience and have owned this unit since April. He has a few days off and we want to try out boondocking in a nearby Forest Service campground, but we are a little worried about how it will go.
We want to stay three nights. What kind of conserving of water and electricity will we need to do to last that long?
Our unit has two 41 gallon freshwater tanks, one grey and one black water tank that are 39 gallons each. I have read on the forum here that we should mostly be concerned with the waste tanks filling. Will the grey tank overflow into the black tank if we fill it with showers and dishwashing?
Should we totally fill those two freshwater tanks before we leave here? Should we stop somewhere on the way back to empty the gray and black tanks? If so on either count, what type place allows this?
How can we make sure the grey and black tanks are totally empty before we leave here to boondocking? The black tank gauge reads empty when my husband drains it, but the grey never seems to get there. People at our current RV park say the gauges are notoriously unreliable.
How careful do we need to be about electricity usage, and is there a reliable way to know how much battery power we have left? We don't have a generator.
Are there any problems that first time boondockers face that I am not thinking about and should consider?
Thanks in advance for any advice you have--it seems so easy here in the RV park!
We want to stay three nights. What kind of conserving of water and electricity will we need to do to last that long?
Our unit has two 41 gallon freshwater tanks, one grey and one black water tank that are 39 gallons each. I have read on the forum here that we should mostly be concerned with the waste tanks filling. Will the grey tank overflow into the black tank if we fill it with showers and dishwashing?
Should we totally fill those two freshwater tanks before we leave here? Should we stop somewhere on the way back to empty the gray and black tanks? If so on either count, what type place allows this?
How can we make sure the grey and black tanks are totally empty before we leave here to boondocking? The black tank gauge reads empty when my husband drains it, but the grey never seems to get there. People at our current RV park say the gauges are notoriously unreliable.
How careful do we need to be about electricity usage, and is there a reliable way to know how much battery power we have left? We don't have a generator.
Are there any problems that first time boondockers face that I am not thinking about and should consider?
Thanks in advance for any advice you have--it seems so easy here in the RV park!