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Originally Posted by Chance
It does raise a question though that I hadn't thought about before. If you travel in winter with temperatures below freezing, I assume that using the heater for passenger comfort keeps everything warm enough so nothing freezes. However, if you stayed with family or in a hotel for a few days in winter and left the RV vacant, is there anything that can be done short of running the heater? Suppose one drove an RV to winter resort and staying in a lodge for a week. Would you run out of propane (assuming you had propane) or battery for furnace? Would you winterize RV prior to trip and leave it that way while traveling? What do northerners typically do?
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Depends on where you are going:
If going south we did something like gmc did above: I de-winterized before leaving home (with a toasty warm RV) and then re-winterized immediately when we got home (before turning off furnace, heat).
If we were brave enough to try some winter camping I think I'd take the advice given
here (basically use bottled water to drink, and pink stuff to flush the toilet with--they have more advice about cleaning the kitchen
here).
When we first got our Axis we camped in early April (documented
here). Unfortunately that was a year where winter simply wouldn't let go. It was in the 30s the entire weekend. Since this was the first trip in the Axis we had full tanks--the furnace used the entire tank of propane for Friday evening through Sunday morning. (I think I even re-winterized it after that weekend out of an abundance of caution.)
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