Curriculum:
- Water systems
- Springs
- Hallelujah hallelujah you hit the jackpot if you have one
- Wells
- Shallow
- You got off cheap
- Deep
- You’re in for 20,000.00
- Shallow
- Getting your water to where you want it
- Hoses-Managing 10,000 feet
- Trenches-Don’t dig during the winter or you’ll end up digging through 10 feet of snow before you even get to the ground-AKA Don’t do what we did
- The art of siphoning or How to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose
- The water pump
- Storing your water
- Make sure your RV tank doesn’t have a huge hole before filling it up
- Tanks: Go big so you can actually take a shower and do the dishes without having to refill
- Springs
- Propane Systems
- Why they’re your new BFF
- Switching everything to gas
- Electrical
- Red is red and black is black but sometimes it’s white
- Your wiring is not rainbow colored
- Battery as opposed to AC or What you can run on and when and for how long
- Batteries
- Care, feeding and maintenance
- 1 battery actually equals 1/2 a battery: Why you have to buy double
- How to make one huge battery from 50 little ones
- Solar Power Systems
- College level calculus
- The art of patience
- The backup system: Your second BFF
- If you plug in your fridge, you’ll lose your Internet: The art of working with your limited solar power system
- Using your RV appliances
- The propane water heater is not your enemy
- Propane, propane, propane
- Screw electric
- The toilet: the art and nuances of managing your poo
- The water pump: Make sure you have one before you try to take a shower
- Social Studies
- How to live in a small space with others and not kill each other
- Dividing the work: It’s a family affair
- Keeping social in an isolated situation
- The Protocol
- Everything you do will have a protocol
- Keeping everyone on the same page of the protocol and hopefully in the same book
- Enjoying the fruits of your labor
- The hot shower
- The hot bath
- Staying warm in subzero temperatures
- Staying cool in the blazing heat of summer
- Your entertainment system
- Living With The Neighbors
- The People
- 50 dogs and how to block out the barking
- How to block out the music
- How to block out the neighbors
- The animals
- It’s not Mr. Foot that’s lurking outside your trailer
- The cat and his friends
- The wolves
- The coyotes
- The mice
- The turkeys
- The deer
- Deciphering which is which
- The People
- Wrapping It All Up
- It’s all worth it