Towing a trailer

So, if you’ve never towed a significantly long trailer, let me tell you, it’s quite the experience.

We’ve towed for about 835 miles thus far. And while I’m really not a fan of the wind and how that causes sway, most of the time it’s been smooth sailing on the highway. There have, however, been a few of those moments where I’ve wondered, “What on earth are we doing?”

Like that one time when a pickup, also towing a trailer, was merging onto the highway, but neither sped up nor slowed down, just paced alongside, and pinned us between it and another motorhome for what seemed like an eternity. By the way, Ford needs to do something about the horn they put on the Expedition. It belongs on a Fiat.

Or that time when our gas tank indicator was computer based and said we had 230 miles to empty, but it averaged our towing mpg and non-towing mpg together, completely overshooting the actual number of miles we were able to drive while towing. It’s really more like 180…