Huff, I use tinfoil wrapped around a gob of plastic bags to plug the hole
around the utility wire. i have on numerous occasions had visitors in the A/S
mostly the four legged ones chewing on things (wife is terrorfied of them) I
found that they also can enter from the box frame in the hitch so I plugged
that with tinfoil. Have also sprayed expanding foam into spaces around the
wheelwells. So far the A/S keeps the bears out! GS
At 09:16 AM 5/29/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Our wonderful '67 Caravel mostly just sits handsomely next to our lake
cottage near Mt. St. Helens. My
>wife was the one who got started on this, admiring a 16' Cassita a few
years ago. She didn't like the
>Cassita bed choices, a friend had an Airstream, and now so do we. But my
wife is into volunteering big
>time, so little spare time and there it sits. So far we have managed two
trips a year, one a solo trip
>by me in the springtime when that Stream and soul-stirring call to me to
get on the road. Lois always
>complains about this: "Why don't you fly to Missoula?" (We have two flight
attendant daughters and thus
>cheap flying "privileges" [not always a 'privilege' because anyone who pays
outranks you, then anyone
>with longer service or higher ranking precedes you. Thus "standby" often
means you standby the gate
>after the plane takes off]).
> So this year I Streamed to Malheur, a national wildlife refuge in
eastern Oregon, about 450-500
>miles from Longview, WA where we live. Great trip. I love that high
desert country. The first few
>days were cool, then a heat wave hit. Now I hate heat, but I was surprised
that with windows open, the
>Stream was really no hotter than the air temp. In fact the "shade" inside
the Caravel made it cooler.
>The facility apparently had full service, though the AC was 10 amp only --
I didn't even try the old
>Coleman A/C. As usual the Caravel was a delight -- both towing (Toyota
LandCruiser) and for living in
>at the field station for the week. As usual I also noted the quiet
benefits of boondocking as there
>were only maybe 6 other campers/tenters in a lovely campground north of
Burns, Oregon where NO
>facilities other than clean public toilet facilities were provided. I
don't think we'll ever get much
>use out of that Coleman A/C unit which, of course, plugs the only roof
ventilation on our Caravel. (How
>many out there have undertaken to cut in a new roof hole for a new vent?).
A forester visiting that
>quiet campground reported the full-facility campground about 50 miles north
was already full for
>Memorial Day weekend (when I signed up for this week -- an
Elderhostel/Portland Audabon Society trip, I
>did not realize I would be returning from the trip on Memorial Day
weekend!). I also forgot there was
>no one home for a few days, so I could have just stayed in that quiet
campground (Idlewild?) all
>weekend. Sure was delightful in the open, sunny, high altitude fragrenced
by the "P-pine" (forester
>term for Ponderosa Pine).
> The only Airstream concern I had was the Utility Port. I had let the
battery water run down, and
>had to service the battery after pulling into camp at night on the way in.
Feeling the cold air rush in
>through the open utility door, I wondered how often critters find their way
up thru the round Utility
>Port in the floor? Is it 4" diameter? The heavy A.C. cable and the water
hose fill only 1/4 of that
>opening. Plenty of room for mosquitoes/insects + mice et. al. to wander
in. Anyone had problems with
>this? Any easy suggestions for effective, realonably easy plugging?
>
> Happy Streming,
> Huff
>
>
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