Surprising Things That Happened To Us In Our Motorhomes | July 2022 Vanner's Collobaration

[@sylviapage8572]

I love the escaping Poppy 😁 thanks for sharing.

[@claireheath4803]

Husband never strapped the battery correctly so when we went around a roundabout it escaped through the hatch. He also didn’t lock the battery box door ! New E&P system fitted in January - towed to Southport not realising they hadn’t secured the pipes correctly and they’d been rubbing along the floor. Started the leg lowering process, but as soon as the middle rams tried to start levelling, system failed and we couldn’t get the legs down or get them back up again. Only this week we thought the onboard tank (which we’d never used before as we are usually on full service facilities) was faulty. Turns out the waste pipes under the kitchen sink had come loose and we had a mini flood situation. The joys of caravanning lol. We may be caravanners, but still love to follow your adventures - you either go to places we’ve been to before or intend to go to in the future. Currently at Lucksall in Herefordshire - highly recommend it but probably not in school holidays if you want peace and quiet. Keep up the good work xx

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

We all have had a few disasters like that, never heard of the escaping battery though! 😅

[@davidcowley1823]

Great video, made me smile, the power cable, and the bag of litter that disappeared made me chuckle. Thanks for sharing your videos.

[@gallivantinggalantes]

Hi Bob and Jenny, some very funny happenings, specially loved Poppy escaping and Jenny in the shower. Brilliant. We had a funny happening today, whilst Tony was filling up with water on our fully serviced pitch, the hose pipe came to life shot out the side of the van, all I could see was water going all over the windows, so rushed round and there was Tony fighting with this snake ha ha and covered in water. Wished I’d had the camera xx

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

That would have been funny! 😂😂

[@philclose86]

The unexpected ferry still makes me smile. Thanks for sharing your experiences again. 👏👏

[@margaretlewis177]

The surprise ferry was the classic of all time!

[@LeisureBit]

It’s surprising how many things can happen isn’t it. You’ve reminded me - ours doesn’t have a buzzer if you’ve left the hookup cable plugged in - it would just let you drive off without warning and you know what will happen one day…. Must sort that one - thanks again for the reminder! All the best, David & Rachel 👍

[@Happyinmyautotrail]

Great video Bob. I always really like the collaborations you do.

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Thank you

[@mg58579]

When I was a child, we were towing a 19 foot single axle trailer (caravan) in Massachusetts and blew a tire on the “caravan” which subsequently bent the axle. Limped home somehow and my father ordered a new axle and replaced it himself. Luckily no one was hurt and it didn’t deter us from “RVing” as we sold the “caravan” shortly thereafter and bought a double axle trailer. Never blew a tire again.

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

That must have been a big surprise? Worrying if your trailer blows a tyre. We have a tyre pressure monitoring system called TyrePal, that can monitor tyre pressures and temperatures.

[@agriben7591]

ah yes the unexpected ferry i remember that video i would be confused aswell if i herd that from my satnav haha good vid Bob

[@alasdairvincent6248]

Back in my boyhood days, my parents had a touring caravan. We used to go on holiday with it in tow, for a month, every Summer. We were on the move to another site, one year. While driving beside Loch Earn in Scotland, my Father, who usually drove, looked in the rear view mirror, and guess what, No caravan! Obviously he turned back, in the direction we had been travelling. There was the caravan, sitting perched precariously on the bank of the loch. The drawbar had wedged on a tree stump, preventing the caravan from toppled into the water. A chap in a van had stopped and very kindly offered to pull the caravan back onto the road, by means of hitching a tow rope to the van, attached to the drawbar of the caravan. He successfully pulled our caravan onto the road, much to our relief. If the caravan had toppled into the water, our holiday would have been over. A tree stump and the kindness of a stranger, saved the day and the rest of our caravan holiday. The caravan couldn’t have been properly hitched onto the tow bar, on leaving our previous site. My Dad made absolutely certain from then on, that that the caravan was securely hitched only the car! It was interesting to here of the mishaps you have had with your motorhomes. People from the motor home and caravanning fraternity, must have many a tale to tell of mishaps, while touring. All the best Bob and Jenny.

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

That was a surprise! Looks like your breakaway cable did it's job though.

[@ButterCupMMXXIII]

Sorry to hear about the various surprises, can relate! 😯 In the 80s, when we lived in Dawson Creek, BC - Mile "0" of the Alaska Hwy - we were driving to Ft. St. John. A large gift-wrapped box, complete with a blue bow, sat on the bumper of a camper from Texas...driving in front of us. We wanted to help, naturally. No amount of flashing the lights or honking the horn did any good. Suddenly they slowed right down to exit the road and the box flew off onto the hood of our VW Rabbit! They had no idea and kept driving out of sight. Meanwhile we pulled over and saved the gift. Never saw them again unfortunately. The box was filled with small glass jars of local honey and preserves. We put an ad in the paper but the newspaper people got it wrong and wrote: Found your honey, well preserved.😊 No one called.

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Great story! 😂😂😂

[@andysteptoe6310]

Fortunately we've not had any mishaps really, as we have you KZbinrs to keep us out of trouble lol. We're going to Minehead & Cirencester in September, Tewkesbury on Nov 5th (Waders & snorkel on checklist) then Broadway Xmas Eve till 27th.

[@gereshomeE]

All learning...! ☺

[@helenandmartinsTreks]

A very interesting video thanks , we enjoyed that. We to have an escaping Poppy 😂. Best wishes Helen and Martin

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Thanks, she was always an escape artist.

[@jackiesmithsmetaldetecting]

I don't have a motor home but a van, i remember we stopped off and i had forgot to close the sliding door, further up the road we were being beeped at waved at, i noticed it in the mirror so we pulled over, the cool bag was open and tomatoes had been falling out along with a jacket that we never found even after driving back down.

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Easy to do, not shutting the doors!

[@barbaranelson9175]

Glad to hear it's not just us. One of our unexpected experiences was in the South of France when sat nav lady directed us under a too low underpass, luckily we stopped in time & had to reverse slowly back - much to the delight of the French drivers - not!

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Oh, but so much better than trying to squeeze under...

[@deirdremccann3212]

We had a motorhome for a short while that had a back door (basically the whole of the back) that lifted right up. No garage so everything was stored in between settees at the back. We set off and my husband couldn’t understand what was going wrong with the rear view camera. We travelled about half a mile and I looked around only to discover that we hadn’t closed the massive back door. A miracle that nothing fell out. 👍🏻

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Wow, nice view out of the back though. 😂😂

[@ttxela]

I've driven off before with the cable connected, fortunately it was a long cable and I noticed just in time!

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

That also happened to someone we followed quite recently!

[@vansforthememories]

I bet you could write a book on the surprising things you’ve had happen or seen on campsites 😚 I definitely would need longer than ten minutes haha 😂 Good to know, it happens to everyone though, even seasoned professionals 😉 Best wishes, Em xx

[@christinehodge3608]

Short version, coming home we poped into Canterbury, went down wrong road, as we met funeral possession man with large hat bowed his head, l opened the window he said ,dont worry u can turnaround just the right wait till possession nearly gone and join us which we did , thank you to the man in the hat, so my late husband and me and our 20foot caravan drove away

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Thanks, so you joined the procession? Maybe the deceased was a caravanner...

[@ButterCupMMXXIII]

Good morning! 🥰

[@ButterCupMMXXIII]

Thanks for another highly enjoyable video! 😎

[@TheBeckwiths]

I remember your mudflap incident.

[@VantasticAdventures]

Driving off without unplugging the cable is one of our biggest fears 😂 sounds like you managed not to do any damage though, well done 👍 Some great stories there, you really should write a book 😊👏

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

It pulled the 3pin plug out of it's fixing!

[@davidlindley485]

Another great video. I was very interested when you mentioned that you have a buzzer that warns you if you attempt to drive off without disconnecting the 240v cable. It has happened to me on three occasions so the buzzer seems like an excellent solution. Did your motorhome come with the buzzer as standard or is it an option that you had fitted later?

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Thanks, came with it.

[@lizzie9581]

New to motorhoming and already have a list of mishaps LOL

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

We learn through our mistakes. 😊👍

[@zagacious]

A few years back whilst driving my Elddis motorhome, I was towing a smart car which out the blue just unexpectedly caught fire on the motorway, we later noticed people waving, and like you we just thought they were being friendly, totally unaware of the seriousness, no rear camera back then, sadly the car was a write-off.

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

Towing a little fireball! Blimey that was worrying!

[@zagacious]

@@BobEarnshawMoHo not one of my finest moments haha, just want to say I love watching your channel, I think you both are an inspiration and thank you for sharing your beautiful interesting and informative adventures :)

[@gillnicholls9665]

The most supprising thing that happened to me once we were away i had a phone call from the hospital saying when we got back home i had to go straight to hospital to have my legs amputated.😢

[@BobEarnshawMoHo]

That must have extremely shocking, I assume that was for life saving reasons.

[@PoshcatsCamping]

It’s funny that there are lots of surprises when you start thinking about all the tours we have done. We like the pleasant surprises, something as simple as an unexpected high or low tide can be nice if there’s a photo opportunity 😃🚐 Trev n Sue