Winter Camping at Maumee State Park | COLD, But FUN! #rvliving #rvtravel #wintercamping #camping

Hi everyone. Oh Lordy. It is, what's the degrees right now hun? Perth near code. 18 degrees outside right now and we're on our way to Toledo, Ohio to camp for the weekend and we're really excited. It'll be our first winter camp out in our camper. And we are talking winter. I mean it is winter. Yes. Well not officially. Not officially winter. But it's cold enough. Yes. So we've got all of our, we've got heaters, we've got extra blankets. So we'll see how warm we stay. Can't wait to share the trip with you. So stay tuned. Well we're almost at our first fuel stop. For the last hour we've been stuck in traffic. And Tina's on the phone with our daughter and she's not feeling well. But I finally see our exit, our fuel stop. And this fuel stop is going to consist of potty breaks, doggie breaks, and I don't know, maybe grabbing some grub. We won't be getting to our site until after dark. It'll be like a whopping 18 degrees when we get there. So, all right. What a day. What a drive. What a day. So we're currently caught by a train. There it is. And I think, yeah, it's starting to move. Well we got caught in what, an hour and a half, a pretty bad accident. And it was right near our fuel stop. But we're almost there. I hear the engines revving up on the train. Yeah, it's been a long day. Next morning. What are you doing? Hanging at the grinchy lights. Look, look how cute they are. Look at those faces. Yeah, that looks pretty good. We'll see. People driving in. See that? Like, yay, good job. The pups are over here, hanging out, doing the winter dog thing. Eric and Jen, nice job on the Grinch. We're here. Gotta make sure. Moments later. These crazy YouTubers, they always got a camera out. Yes, and we're following you. You're following me. Scare somebody. Hey. Is it scaring you? No. Alright Tina, tell us what you got. Okay, we got Spice is Right. What is it? Spice is Right. Holiday Spice. Spice Word. Rhyme with. It says it's with cinnamon. Rhyme with orange. Anniversary IPA. Cinnamon. Snowing. Snowing. And camping. And happy. Hobby camper. That one's mine. The hobby camper's mine. But this is the mystery room. Yes, the mystery room. Not sure where it is. Two hours later. Okay, so we are at the Spirit, the Spirit, uh, the Toledo Spirit House. I can't remember the name of the place. Anyway, pretty cool place. And they have a sticker board. So we've been putting these stickers on a couple of the restaurants and the breweries we've been going to. So, check out this. Check out this. Here is the sticker wall here. And I know the confers put theirs somewhere. So I'm thinking about putting ours over theirs. But I gotta find it. Looking. Looking for theirs. He said he put it up high. But as high as he could reach, he said. Got our sticker. And I'm gonna go as high as I can. I'm gonna go right up there. It's up there. Alright. Sleep well, good sticker. So when I was a kid, I used to collect beer cans as a hobby. And when we came here, check this place out. They have tons and tons of old beer cans. Well, many of them I recognize. I still have a couple of them. I think I still have the old Froth and Slosh beer cans. And the Ertl's 92 cone top. Which was always sought out as one to get. I don't see any cone tops here. So, maybe I'll donate it to them. Alright. Tina. Hang on, let me get myself squared away here. Alright. We are at the Maumee. Maumee? We're at the Maumee State Park. Right. Or near around Toledo, Ohio. Right. And we are doing our first Winter Camp. And it's been a little bit of a It's been challenging, but it's been successful. Yes, very successful. We had one small issue. The kitchen lines froze. So the sink didn't work. The kitchen sink didn't work. It thawed out. And it's all good now. But we thought we'd just talk real quick about our trip so far. Or not. Denver is doing his Oh, buddy. Sorry, hang on. Yeah. A little bit of a challenge, but Denver's little short legs get caught up in his little grinchy outfit. So hang on, buddy. Hang on. Alright. Yeah, I did roll him up. Come here. Alright, there we go. Alrighty. Can you do that now? Can we make that work? Alright. Anyway. As I was saying. So our water lines froze into the kitchen. I turned the heat on and it thawed out. Wasn't a problem. But this has been a lot of fun. And I want to thank Mike and Joni from Those Who Clam Together. They invited us when we were at the Hershey Show to come up here for winter camping first weekend in December. So I was a little apprehensive about it because we've never done it. But it's been a lot of fun. So the park has basically one loop open this time of the year. Now they supposedly had a frost free spigot to fill up. But they didn't. It froze. So luckily for us there's a laundry room where we were able to fill up from there. So right behind our spot Site 150 there's a little asphalt trail. It kind of just loops around this little frozen inlet little lake. So we thought we'd just take the pups out for a quick walk. And let's talk about it, Tina. So we talked about the park a little bit. They do have Disc Golf which is not open this time of year. There is a really cool I guess they just call it the lodge. Very pretty. So if you're not a camper that would be a place you'd want to stay. It's really nice. Right now it's decorated in Christmas decorations. They have a nice little bar area that you can go to to warm up. So we've met a lot of cool new people. Yeah. Jen and Eric. We met them. Jen and Will. Will and William. We met so many people that it's kind of hard to remember everybody's names. come on Denver let's go buddy. The pups want to stop and smell everything. Which is fine. They need to get out and exercise a little bit. We met Gary. And I don't really know much about Gary. Although I think it was Jeff and Gary were going to offer me some kimchi. Never had it before. I know they're going to offer me a taste of it. So I might take them up on that. We might try to come back in either the spring or the fall and see what it's like when it's fully operational. Okay so now we're on the trail headed to do you know what lake is it? We don't know the lake we're hiking to. It's one of the great lakes. I wouldn't get out there on this. Alright so we made it down to the lake. Yeah it's beautiful. One of the great lakes. We still don't know which one it is. Is it eerie? It might. It might be eerie. I don't know. We shouldn't know that. We'll figure it out. But as you can tell it's the first full weekend in December and we've already got ice on the lake. If you look close enough you'll see two white swans out there. They're so pretty. Well I think they're swans. They're really pretty out there on the water. The first time we've done winter camping and it's cold but it's so much fun. So a new experience for us. Alright Tina here's your challenge. Count how many birds you see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. You missed that one. Look how nice it is out there on Lake Erie. I've been to Lake Erie before but never in the winter. No. Never in the winter. It's a first for us. Alright. So winter camping has its challenges but it's tolerable. Now our RV says it's four seasons camping but it's not really four seasons. I guess it could be but man I wouldn't want it to get any colder than what we've had. The coldest it got I think was 18 degrees. Right. But David did a good job monitoring the heaters and the gas and kept us nice and warm in the camper. Our little tip here is to monitor your current usage on both legs. If you have a 50 amp RV so you need to watch what circuit you're plugged into. We had the two space heaters like I showed you you'll see here. What we did for the underbelly is we kept the space heaters to run around 66 degrees but I had the thermostats for the heat, the gas heat at 68. So when it would drop down below 68 of course then the gas would come on and it kept the underbelly warm. Which is I'm pretty sure how it thawed out the faucet. So I've installed the tank heaters on the bottom of the rig and I guess they did okay. It's cold. Hang on. I don't think the sink is working. The sink's not working? No the faucet's not running anymore. It's cold out there. I don't think see there's no water. Wasn't it working last night? When I filled up it did. It's not working now. Great. Is the sink in the bathroom ready? Let's see. The pump's on. Let's just see. This one's working. The hot and cold are working here. I know I heard it just moments ago. Okay. Well it's possible it froze up. Possible. End of flashback. So and I think that froze literally I think that froze from where we filled up with water. Just to the site which was a quarter of a mile away and overnight because I know it worked in the morning. I mean that evening it worked. And we got up in the morning and no water. No water in the kitchen. Everything else worked. We're heading back and we're going to have a Chili Chili tonight. Chili Pigeon dinner and some other fun activities. Looking forward to that. We're going to head on home, let the pups have their dinner and then we're going to have ours. Snickerdoodle. What are you doing Tina? Oh getting ready to get Chili. Look how yummy it looks. Yeah. Yummy. And you only brought one gift, let me know. Okay so you guys brought one, you only get one card. I mean someone like put hearts. The shape of a heart. Hit a club. That's me. Hit a club. Alright. What is yours? I'm not going to tell you. They didn't even know what was in it. Does the lock-in happen here? She's sad. Does the lock-in happen even if they're not open? Where's that one that everyone missed? She took mine. You can steal one or you can pick another one. Pay attention. This must be pretty important. I don't even know what you have in your hand but I must know. Try the best one. Oh my gosh. See you guys have to understand this. This is actually on my Christmas list. Mexican trained dominoes. I like what you did. Oh well shoot. Man I got a wavy big hoodie. Where's that shoe box at? Wait a minute. Finally finally. What do we got here? Sauces and stuff. Tissue paper. A lot of little different seasonings. Grilling spices. And then you had the night before. I had the night before. It all depends. We're starting bids for January to June. I'll probably get thrown. I just happened to have a sticker. That's our card. You got the I.S. on. The reflection right here. Yeah I did. She would have told about a good part last night. I did but you told too. You just didn't remember. Didn't he tell that he ran over the bucket right? He denied it at first though. But we're sorry that we ran over yours. I didn't actually run it over. The truck sits so high. The bucket was just under the truck. The bucket is fine. I want you to show this part of you running over the bucket right now and then you guys tell us what you think. It's okay. His lawyer will contact your lawyer. Thank you and we will buy you a new bucket. No I don't want another bucket. Pretty.