July 8, 2016 - Am I Being a Pussy?

Montana is a pretty big state when you are crossing it longwise. We were there most of the day as we experienced the first true mountain passes in our new rig. I really can’t speak for other RVers but I imagine they are like us and compare, contrast, ooh, ahh, admire, critique and gape at the size of the other RVs on the road.  Denis is quick to use the comparative term “pussy” when measuring up someone’s bravado. Today as trucks smaller than Molly passed us on the uphill stretches with trailers bigger than ours Denis asked, “Am I being a pussy?”

We made it to Coeur d’ Alene where Theresa had arranged for us to park Scoop in their boat garage. We’d been there before and knew what was coming….a true test of our (mostly Denis’) backing up skill. At this point we had really only backed up once. But, we watched tons of YouTube videos on the topic with our favorite being the “scoop” method, the origin of our trailer’s name. We also adopted the idea of using walkie talkies to communicate during the parking process. Denis is better at knowing which way to turn the steering wheel and I am better at communicating so those skill sets determined our jobs.  With a deep breath we began what we thought would be a drawn out process, but we rocked it. There was 6” on each side and 2” top clearance, one problem, we were 4” too long. Too bad, the door will just rest on the hitch. We were not pussies.