A few weeks ago, our friend Chris Guld let me know that the first time they met us a year ago she was inspired by watching us check our toad’s lights. Usually we like inspiring folks for less mundane things, but we’ll go with it.
She liked our system so much, that she and Jim now use our hand signals as part of their own pre-trip check.
Chris and I kinda stumbled upon a set of clear & intuitive hand signals on our own that work really well. We figure if a 10-year full timing veteran picked up something new from us – perhaps other might as well?
So, we captured our light check on camera the other day to share with you.. here it is in a very quick video:
This little video was a lot of fun and pretty easy to create. Let us know if there are other quick tips like this we can share with you, and we’ll start recording them as we have time.
We’re humbled that RV Travel featured our little video today as the video tip of the day!
General Update: We’re super busy and heads down researching, testing equipment and re-writing The Mobile Internet Handbook. We’ll do our best to keep the blog up to date as we go!
This is awesome. Simple and easy and we will be using.
Don’t forget to check the bolts on your toads tow bracket and look for any cracks or stress marks in the tow hitch, tow bar and tow plate/bracket on a regular basis.
-Sean
Great reminder.. we do inspect ours regularly. We also just had ours inspected and serviced by Blue Ox at one of the rallies we attended.
What a great tip! G and I will be using your signals and since we’re very new to full-timing we can use all the tips we can get. Thanks again very much.
It’s going to be fun being in campgrounds and see folks flashing their hands as they prep to leave. 🙂
Isn’t it interesting how what is intuitive to some is not to others? We used these same signals when we were fulltiming with a toad but it never occurred to me other people weren’t using them. We don’t make videos, though, so are glad to see you passing these on to those others who can now use them, too.
It is interesting.. we didn’t think it was all that unique of a system, and glad to know others had used it too!