Just come back from our second only (2 day) outing in our 2014 Troll 530, over two years from when we did our first outing! (and as caravaners). A family illness, and then COVID meant our little Eriba was in storage all that time. We had no opportunity to winterize it or put the cover on, so this year we had it serviced and washed ready for it's outing.
We drove all of 5 mins from the storage site to a Caravan & Motorhome Club Site. A steep learning curve for us novice caravaner's, having completely forgotten everything we learnt from our handover at Automotive Leisure, and our first trip straight after. It took us an hour to get the motor-move to work until we rang AL who asked about the red isolation key - which we had no idea what was for on our keyring.
We had a wonderful couple of days, blessed with lovely weather, and confirmed why we bought our Eriba

Hope to see and talk to many more of fellow Eriba owners in our future adventures.

all turned out well for you then, I forget stuff all the time. I once made a check list then forgot where I had put it Morphy

You are not on your own, between us all on the Forum we could probably write a book on things we forgot to do or take 😂

Every time we start off we always say, I wonder what we've forgotten this tine.
Dave

For some unknown reason we had no spoons with us last outing. Trying to make a cuppa or eating breakfast with a knife and fork is quite awkward. They are not the easiest thing to find in a small village.

Here's a tip, look for a charity shop. Saved us.

Steve

Live dangerously.

Retrieve used teabags with a rubber glove.

Tom and Margaret

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Hi Clive and welcome to the Forum

We've all been there especially when we have not used the van for a long time. For reasons similar to yours we have had very few trips in the Troll in the last 18 months and none since last August.

When we uncovered our 540 we felt like total beginners again and had to sit down and think carefully just last week about everything we needed to do starting a new season. It didn't come quickly or easily......................!

When we arrived we didn't think we had done too bad looking like we had just forgotten the mixed herbs, the garlic crusher, the sweet chillie sauce and the beach chairs.

That was until the second day when Kath washed up in the sink after breakfast and I went into the bathroom to clean my teeth. The shower tray was awash with various remains of our high fibre breakfast cereal mix - not a pretty sight, and rather disturbing.

Thank goodness that something in my aging & malfunctioning brain clicked, and I remembered what I had done.

I normally put an old wine bottle stopper in the dirty water drain pipe to keep any creepy crawlers and mice out. However this year I had got creative and replaced the stopper by double wrapping one of Kath's old pop socks around the bottom of the pipe. When I had tested that the dirty water waste container was in the right place some water had trickled through but 3 washings up had sent enough food bits down the sink to totally block this. When I peeled the pop sock off there was a gush of dirty water which reached almost Biblical proportions which landed all over my stylish blue Crocs......not a pretty sight.

I wonder what it will be next time?

Happy travels

MikeT

Quote: eribaMotters wrote in post #5

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Last week I forgot to put the screw top on the onboard 40L water tank before the lovely Mrs eribaMotters filled it and part of the front of the van.

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