Our rig on this trip really has everything you could ask for in a home: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room. And with all mod cons: oven, shower, air con and satellite TV. Another thing we have is a washing machine dryer…
So last night we decided to do a wash overnight, because you wouldn’t want to do it on the road, it mightn’t work right. Having loaded up we hit the hay to dream of foreign lands.
At 5:30 I awoke to the noise of the machine happily washing away, over six hours after starting. Slowly through my sleepy consciousness I realised this was out of normal operating parameters, and the dial must be stuck. So I jumped up and moved the dial onto rinse. Back into bed quickly, it was cold last night up at 4500 feet and I was glad to drift off again which means the jet lag must be leaving me.
Another hour later and Maisy awoke me with a cautionary tone that the waste water tank was nearly full. “That’s a new one”, I thought. She’s usually goes on about the battery being flat, when it’s clearly fine. Then I heard a very ominous gurgle from the sink.
It’s interesting how it can usually take many minutes to wake up and yawn the sleep out of you, yet sometimes you can be awake in an instant. I jumped up and saw the washing machine was still filling with water, while simultaneously emptying. It had gone through 100 gallons and since the waste water drains into an onboard tank, it was about to flood the place. Another twist of the dial, and it stopped that, and started to spin.
So, should I now go outside and hook up the waste pipe and drain the tank? It’s 6:30 am, still dark and snowing very slightly in the dry cold air, and I’m in my PJs. My bed is just there and is still warm…
Well, Maisy said the tank was only “nearly” full, and she’s always right about these things. You’d have done the same too.
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