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captbanjo,
We each have our own experiences on this, I agree with the above comments, you are not gonna camp in this unit all year round, unless you head south early enough and do not suffer from temps that stay below 20 degrees for more than a few hours.
Personally we DO not travel with the heat on, although many here at MOC report doing so, quite successfully. Well, I should add one kudo, we did do it ONE time, January 27th, 2005 when we left Michigan, NO WATER, 4 below zero, we put the furnace on about 2 hours before we thought we would arrive at the campground of the night, where the temps were 19 above. We turned on to about 45, and it was kinda nice going into the rig and having it a bit warmer. Note that the tv antenna was still frozen to the roof, and the olive oil in the kitchen rear cabinets had turned to a cloudy coagulated mass.
When we run south from Michigan in January, February and even March, we run with NO water, lots of baby wipes and run HARD for 2 days and pray that at the end of the 2nd day we will have reached temps that are OK for loading on water. We have done this for a number of years, we are comfortable with it, and personally, we just cannot see taking out hoses at 3 above or 4 below and trying to fill the tank before we leave home.
Baby wipes, paper plates, sandwich meats, prepacked meals that need little clean up and a few fast food joints, we do quite well and don't have to worry about running propane all day and worry, are we gonna freeze up or not.
Others have other experiences, and hopefully, they will share them with you, another thought, use the search engine here at MOC, this has been discussed a few times before, maybe those discussions are not in the archives???
OH, the Artic Package, a lot of us feel it is a misnomer. (not sure how that word is spelled), lets just say, we kinda giggle when we hear it, even tho it is an improvement on units build 10 and 15 years ago, it is not gonna keep you that warm. Sorry, but that is our experience.
Carol
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