Tuesday, 1 January
Beaver Lake Campground — Quincy, Florida
Temps: Lo 54F at NS Mayport / Hi 73F in Quincy (12C / 23C)
We left NS Mayport today and are en route to our next destination — Pensacola, Florida. We would have preferred to extend our stay at Pelican Roost RV Park by one more day and have just one night on the road en route, but it wasn’t meant to be. So we pulled up stakes this morning and made an uneventful 220-mile (352 km) trek west via I-10 to land at a campground near Quincy, Florida (west of Tallahassee).
We made the 220-mile (352 km) drive in about 5 hours — two rest stops included.
We debated staying at a campground with amenities, but decided instead to take a chance on Beaver Lake Campground. This is a Passport America park with a 50% off rate of $20/night (including tax; cash only) for a 50A FHU site. First impressions notwithstanding, it’s a decent park for an overnight stay at this reduced rate. Since we plan to spend the day in Tallahassee tomorrow, that’s all we needed — a place to sleep, albeit for two nights. We’re in site 6, which is a pull-through with plenty of space behind and in front of us — the campground sites are located along two sides of a huge field. We have no neighbors on the passenger side, and there are two empty sites between us and the neighbor on the driver side. This makes our site feel especially spacious. If those sites were occupied, it would be a different story.
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Site 6 (left) and our view out the windshield.
Since I have nothing exciting to report from today, I thought it would be a good time to write about the TireTraker Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) that Mui installed last year. After all, we got to see it in action today. In this case, it was a false alarm because Mui has yet to re-program the baseline for a replacement sensor, but it was good to know the system was doing its job.
A tire blow-out is a major safety concern for every RVer, so after debating the pros and cons of having a monitoring system, and researching the various options, Mui settled on the easy-to-install TireTraker. The TT-400C is a “full-time wireless electronic tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) designed to monitor and display tire pressures from 0 psi up to 145 psi, and also to monitor tire temperatures from 14°F to 185°F.” The system he purchased monitors not just the Phaeton’s tires, but the ones on the toad as well.
These sensors are mounted on the air valves on the tires.
The display unit is programmed with tire pressure information for each tire
to ensure accurate monitoring.
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Verifying that the monitor is displaying accurate pressure (left) and temperature
Information for the front driver-side tire. (THe black box for the tire being tested blinks.)
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System installed and operational.
This is not a Phaeton mod per se, but I’m posting it under that category for anyone interested in such things.
