With the camper home for the weekend, we started working on some of the systems. At this point, we are just checking to make sure things work. Tom pulled the water tanks and put some water in them to make sure the plumbing fittings didn’t leak. Well, they did leak. The pex tubing and fittings we bought here in Belize did not seal properly. Since this is the low (no) pressure side of the water supply we are going to use flexible tubing and band clamps to setup the supply to the water pump. Great to find this out PRIOR to installing everything!
We’re also planning on carrying a very simple water filtration system with us, using two jugs and a Sawyer water filter. This is the same system we had been using at our jungle lodge for 13 years. We have that all set up, and are using it here, and so far, that seems to be working too.
We’ll use a the same type of jug on the bottom as we have on the top rather than the commercial water bottle, but for here, we filter five gallons at a time, so we drip into the blue jug.
The only other thing we accomplished this weekend was loading the motos into the camper using the new ramp. It’s a little more physically difficult than we expected, and it takes the two of us for both of the bikes, but it works. But, that’s why we don’t have any photos - neither of us had a free hand to take a picture when we were pushing the bikes up the ramp.
The only other thing we accomplished this weekend was loading the motos into the camper using the new ramp. It’s a little more physically difficult than we expected, and it takes the two of us for both of the bikes, but it works. But, that’s why we don’t have any photos - neither of us had a free hand to take a picture when we were pushing the bikes up the ramp.