Camper life, continued

One of our favorite "upgrades" I forgot to mention in my last post. The camper came with a frosted glass in the door. The idea is to provide light without compromising privacy , since there is no window blind on the door, and the screen door is on the inside of the entry door. On the other hand, the frosted glass greatly decreased the viewable area from our dinette.

Last week, I took out the old glass and had a new piece of tempered glass cut. I installed it and greatly increased our vistas!

It is hard to give a true idea of how much the change improved our "outlook," so to speak, but in this photo, the window in question is the one on the far right.  The privacy issue was easily handled by adding some snaps to the inside of the screen door and snapping a curtain on them to cover the window at night.

On another topic. We experienced a great deal of condensation in the camper our first couple of nights on this trip. It stands to reason that two humans and two canines and a crockpot full of white bean and chicken chili would put some moisture into the air.  With the outside relative humidity at 100% and the ambient temperature around 55F, we had what amounted to a rainstorm dripping off of the aluminum frame of the escape hatch above the bed.

It finally dawned on me that we needed ventilation. So, last night we left a window open about an inch and cracked the hatch above the bed so we could get some cross ventilation. It worked! Well, kind of. The outcome was we awakened this morning to no condensation; on the other hand, we were pretty cold in the night. 

I guess I should have checked to make sure that our summer/winter sleeping bag (called a Travasak) had the winter (more heavily insulated)  side up. We also have a couple of extra blankets we could have used, one of which is an electric blanket. Oh, well, we live and learn. Next time we will be warm AND dry; but that will have to wait for another trip. We are headed home later this morning.