flossiethereddale

Working on the road

July 11

Catch up/ supply up/ repair day

What had intended to be a rest day and catch up day for the weekend has turned into a door project day for Flossie the Red Dale. One of the last projects we wrapped up in Denver was a complete door rebuild. Well we should have done a more thorough job of inspecting the back, what I’m calling “shed” door as well as the screen door. Both have taken a major beating these first two weeks. The aluminum hinge broke on the screen door one of the days in Dinosaur. And the fragile plastic slider that would be used to close or slightly open depending on how your using the door is completely coming apart.

The shed door, once taken apart and inspected has similar damage to the door we rebuilt. Water rot on the particle board that is sandwiched between two aluminum sheets.

So we will venture into Logan, Utah – only about a 15 minute drive from our camp spot to do laundry, get more ice for the coolers, and get supplies to fix these two doors. We originally joked that Zach would get bored too fast on this trip without ongoing projects to work on, we’ll we’ve all stayed busy enough just getting camp set up, enduring the long driving travel days, and now doing ongoing work on our old gal to keep her road worthy, safe, and useable

Broken aluminum hinge
Plastic that was barely hanging on
Rotten shed door
No garage, no problem, as long as you bring the right tools
New hinge, it got the job done
New shed door
Laundry village, note the masks, we still go anywhere public masked up

Who is Flossie and what are we even doing?

If you don’t know us personally, this is the story about a family of four who decided to leave the life we built in Denver and almost all of our possessions in exchange for the road for a six-month journey in a restored 1968 Red Dale camper we named after our grandmother Flossie. 

Flossie the Red Dale is a 20’ travel trailer that we found, gutted, and restored in 2018. We thought we’d use her for regular camping and handful of times a year, a big upgrade from sleeping on tent floors for the past 20 years. But when the corona virus global pandemic of 2020 quickly changed our life plans and trajectory to move out of the country, we decided to make different plans and take a once in a lifetime trip. This is the place where we’ll share our travel stories, some of it mundane, some of it camper related, some extraordinary, all one big life adventure. We hope you’ll stick around to see how the story unfolds.