Backing Up. Poop. Day 20. Duluth MN

There are two unpleasant aspects to RVing: backing into tight spaces and pooping. If this is to be an honest blog I have to talk about both. 

Our campsite in Duluth is suboptimal. We are essentially parked in a parking lot that is used in the winter for boat storage. Well worth it though. We are just across the bridge from downtown Duluth; we can watch the big boats coming in the harbor; and yesterday we didn’t have to get in the truck to see the sights.

The downside: it took 30 minutes, and 100 people watching as we tried to back up the rig into the “campsite/parking space”. We also held up traffic on the road. Meanwhile there were two $100,000 rigs on either side of us we had to protect. Ugh. 


On the pooping side we have a gravity toilet instead of the normal kind. Press the foot petal and everything washes into a black tank that we have to empty every four or five days. Not a big deal except the sensors are finicky and sometimes don’t work and I am not sure how to tell whether the toilet is full. Keith wants to take my mop handle and stick it down the hole. I vetoed, but there are no branches in the parking lot of a marina 5 minutes from downtown Duluth. So we are still discussing what to do. A minor stressor and no doubt we will figure it out.


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