Mark is Working on Modifications to the new Trailer

Our home-owner's association doesn't allow for RVs to be parked in our neighborhood permanently. So we now have an added expense of renting a storage spot. But we can park the trailer in the driveway temporarily, and Mark used this time to work on some modifications to the Geo Pro. He spent a lot of his time laying on the driveway doing things that Denisa doesn't even pretend to understand. He'll have to write the blog that explains his modifications to the solar and electrical systems later.

But Denisa does understand the need for storage in these tiny RVs, and she certainly appreciates Mark's work. On each side of the bed, we each have a tiny hang-up closet. This is basically all the storage space we have for our clothes. It's not a very tall closet, and Mark's shirts are so long that they puddle at the bottom of the closet.

We decided to leave one closet for a few hang-up clothes. But in the closet on the other side, Mark built shelves out of light weight wood. 

Remembering that we can't add much weight to this RV, we also found some cloth storage boxes that can stack two deep into the closet. Now we can keep lots more clothes organized in this configuration of the space!

Many RVs have good storage under the dinette benches. But we found our benches were filled with heater vent pipes and the water heater. There was just a little unused space, and Mark reconfigured it into a box that will fit our fans and a ceramic heater.

Our couch is surprisingly comfortable with its flip-out foot rests. But we found that the four inches between the back of the couch and the murphy bed made a black hole where things could be lost and never found again. We read about some foam rubber wedges from Amazon that would fill this space just right.

Those wedges seem like awfully big items to add to our limited space. But we get double duty from them. They are also used at the head of our murphy bed to extend it in length. They also plug another black hole when the bed is down where we were losing things--like our pillows at night.

Mark also added a paper towel holder and two bath towel racks. Those don't seem to be worth too much explanation or a picture. But it's now nice to have a place for all our towels--paper and cloth. 

During our first time pulling the trailer down the highway, Mark saw that he had lots of blind spots. He was used to our motor home, with a rear camera and two side cameras to show the traffic around him. So he installed a rear camera on the back of the trailer, with a screen mounted on the pickup's windshield. It's nice to know when there are vehicles right behind us!

Mark also installed another solar panel on the top of the trailer. But now we're getting way over Denisa's head in more ways than one. Those modifications are more complicated, and deserve a blog of their own.