Time with Family and Fridge Repairs

If you are following our adventures we left off last with our 4th of July adventures around Lake Minnetonka with Laura's family.  We ended up spending another 2 weeks in Minnesota.  This time included me playing in a golf tournament with some of my family.  Doing some minor RV repairs and one major one, a new fridge.  We got to meet our newest nephew, Joseph, right before we left town and spend some time with some amazing friends that we've missed while being on the road.  

Going home is always pretty special to me, especially when it involves playing golf.  I grew up on that golf course.  If it wasn't for Minnesota winters it would probably be fair to say I spent more time out there than at our house.  So to be able to bring Eli out here is pretty special.  He really like riding on the golf cart with Grandma and Grandpa.  He also like chasing around our golf balls and even hit a few!  

​While I was playing golf Laura was able to sneak away to hang out with her sister and her family at an RV park just 20 minutes from my hometown.  Pretty random coincidence that they happened to be in the same area on the same weekend as us.  Oh and of course being home in Redwood Falls meant we had to stop by Dari King.  Eli really liked his first ice cream cone!

Being home in Redwood also meant we had access to my dad and his handyman skills,tools, and generosity.  The project that we needed to tackle was installing a residential refrigerator into our RV.  Our old Norcold 1200 RV fridge just couldn't stay cold.  The freezer worked but the fridge temp was hanging out around 50 degrees.  This meant doing some modifications to the cabinet area where the old fridge was in order to make room for the new one.   

We were fortunate to find pretty much exactly what we were looking for after a handful of stops.  Given the smaller space we needed a counter depth fridge otherwise our hallway would disappear.  The height wasn't as important since even the shortest fridges out there would have still required us to do some modifications.  The other thing that played into our decision was finding a fridge that we could fit into RV.  The fridge we found had about an inch to spare, and that was bringing it in through a window.  

The actual install process was pretty easy.  Thankfully we had a plugin that runs through our inverter, which means that our batteries could power our fridge as we were driving down the road instead of running on propane like our old model.  If you want more details about what we did, I'm happy to share, just send me a note.  

We saw Laura's family.  We saw my family.  We completed some necessary RV remodels.  We saw some good friends.  It was now time to say goodbye and make our way to Nashville for our Beachbody Summit.  On the road again!