Day 30 - Harvest Host Site, CA

Our second Harvest Host experience is at a fruit and vegetable farm. They had us park by the loading ramp and the spot is pretty flat. In fact, we did not need any leveling blocks and once I used the front landing gear to take the load off of the hitch, the trailer was level. I went ahead and left it connected. We stopped in the store and picked up dinner (plus a bit more). The chicken pot pie and fresh strawberry pie looked too good to pass up. Some of the reviews were kind of negative but the owner was fantastic to deal with. Very nice, he came by to check on us several times to see if we needed anything. He invited us to go ahead and pick some berries for our cereal or dessert.

On our way here, we stopped at Costco and Target to pick up some food items before having a wonderful lunch with my cousin in north Sacramento. Driving through Sacramento was without incident and the gps continues to work well guiding us through the interchanges complete with pictures showing what lanes to be in. I do ask Bridget to use Google maps satellite view to look at parking lots in advance to find parking. E.g find parking at the Woodland Costco/Target.

About a half hour before the store closed, I dug out the two 2000 watt Champion generators and the parallel kit.The parallel kit allows you to wire up two of their generators and, in this case, supply 30 amps. This allows us to run the air conditioner. The Progressive Industries EMS that I installed complains that there is an open ground, i.e. the generator isn't connected to earth ground, and disconnects to power from the RV. I could ground the generators or this is the one instance when I would flip the switch on the EMS display to disable the EMS. Now power from the generator is passed straight through. This was the first time I've tried either the generators or the parallel kit. Though I did ask my brother in-law to unpack and run both generators shortly after they arrived from Amazon.

When we first arrived here, I turned on the inverter so we could run some electric fans to keep air circulating. The Trimetric monitor was reporting a 16 amp draw from the battery bank. It took me a bit to figure out that I needed to manually switch the refrigerator to propane when the inverter is on. That's when I noticed that the "check" light was lit on the refrigerator. This usually means that the refrigerator was unable to light the burner which translates to out of propane. I had only turned on one of the two tanks. Problem solved. So for us 30 lbs of propane translates to about 2 1/2 weeks of use. Not too bad at all.