Last day of four months at Oak Grove RV Resort, temperature in the high 80’s (31C). Finish the packing is the only major task of the day, yesterday we started Rolling Thunder, repaired the rear fender mount, removed the tire covers and rinsed off the rims.

Folded the “Clam” and washed the rug from under the Clam, we always shifting items from compartment to compartment to gain more room, or make it easier at the next location to set up, or operate smoothly on short stays, what will be needed first and is it easily available. We do not expect to have a campsite until we are back across the boarder, so will not need chairs or the barbecue as we expect to stay at rest stops, Cracker Barrels, Walmart’s, Lowe’s, Pilot or the like for the next 10 days.

Our next reservation is at Fifty Point Conservation Park on the 18th of April, which is our go to park, it is close to friends and family, and with Easter being that weekend we can probably mooch a meal or two. Our trip north will take about eight days at two hundred miles a day so we have a couple of days to explore and with our shortened driving days we can unhook and explore most afternoons. This is a reason for trying to pack less in the Sport-Trac and with towing it four wheels down the unhook is less than five minutes and the reattach not much more.

So today should be a less stressful day, I suspect some pool time, a barbecued dinner, final laundry, last long hot shower, all those full hook up comforts that boon-docking eliminates……lol

It’s Sunday evening, and we are about 12 hrs from departure, we’re packed the Sport-Trac is ready, the bike rack installed and the bikes are loaded, in the morning we only have a few ends to tie up, final dumps, clean mirrors and windows, tire pressures, final slide and roof inspection, mount the ladder, and hooking up the toad. Laurie is close on the interior, our expectation is a 10 o’clock departure.

That drip is on the fresh water tank, not what I wanted to see today. This issue first came to light in November when we were boon-docking in the Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area in Florida, and at the time I stopped it with some gorilla tape the has held up till now. At the time resources where few and far between so when it worked I thought just let it be. Maybe the sanitizer weaken the bond the other day, what ever the reason it is leaking again.

This is a 380 litre / 100 gallon tank located between the frame rails of the chassis, and looks like it would be nearly impossible to remove as the area in front of the tank has a bracket holding the 2000 watt inverter welded in place. The kink looks like it has been there for sometime, possibly from the time of manufacture, no matter replacing it seems too difficult of option, so I will take another attempt to patch it. I have used a product called “Goop” to patch water leaks on glass washers when there are small holes so we will try this and see.

Well half a tube of Goop and a couple of hours of application upon application we seem to have stopped the leak. I think part of the cause of this leak is the amount of flex in the tank, although it has multiple supports when the tank is empty it does not rest on them but with it full it is fully supported on the cross bars. There is about 800 lbs of water in that tank so things are going to move.

Because we will be dry camping on the trek north we will need the tank full on departure to get us through the ten days. Well now back to the job of packing as we have picked up a couple of new chairs which we must find homes for as well as all the other regular equipment.