I’d seen a message thread on a Jayco RV forum about RV disasters large and small, and noticed a commonality – every one of them seemed to start “We were really tired, and…”

So.

We were really tired, and we wrecked our RV.

I suppose you’ll want details, eh?

While we were sad to leave By the Lake in Oklahoma, we were excited to get to Austin and spend some time getting things in proper order in the RV, seeing Austin, and eating some Texas BBQ. The drive wasn’t too stress-inducing, despite rain and traffic in Fort Worth. Most drivers in Texas seem to understand accommodating a semi or somebody’s home lumbering down the highway, which helped ease tensions. We got to Cedar Breaks Park around 1:30 and found our way to our site.

Matt backed the RV in fairly easily. It wasn’t exactly straight, but it would do. Then he started the usual setup – disconnect the truck, get the chocks and levelling blocks in place, hit “auto-level” and let Lippert Industries take over. Only, the back left leg was hyper-extending and throwing a stroke error, even with an (to my mind) excessive number of blocks. Not having the rig level can seriously mess up your slideouts and we did NOT want to wreck our home, especially this early in our adventure.

Ahem.

So, despite being hot, hungry, tired and feeling terribly guilty for having the dogs back in their crates, we decided to hook up the camper and re-position it on site.

Same error. Fuuuuu….

Matt drove back to the park office and asked if there might be a more level site we could park in, and came back with three options. The first was directly across from our site and we’d actually ruled it out when we first were making arrangements, because the approach was just too squirrelly for our taste. The second was just up the road and looked more private than the third, so we decided to take that one. We re-re-hooked up the camper and headed to site 50.