One of the reasons people say that it's hard to "full-time" in a Chinook is the fact that the fresh water, black (sewage), and grey (waste from sinks, shower drain) water tanks are so small. It's indeed a challenge. We (two adults and a cat) can go about 3 days before we have to dump the waste water tanks, and take on fresh water for drinking, washing, cooking, etc.. Compared to RVs with bigger tanks (almost all of them), we have to deal with this very frequently. It's not a problem when we are in a campground, where sewer dump stations and drinking water hoses are right on site. When we are boondocking, we have to find the stations ourselves and then pack up the rig and go there. Every 3 days. Here in Arizona, we don't have a hard time finding stations, there are lots of them around. Where we are now, however (parked in a lovely solitary spot at the base of the Oatman Mountains, where we've enjoyed 3 days of hiking, sunset watching, and fire ring building), we are an hour's drive to the nearest dump/water. So that's what we did today. We took a scenic backroad (which actually took 2 hours, but it was interesting!), then dumped the tanks, threw away our garbage bags, bought a few supplies (okay, wine and ginger snaps.), and drove the hour back to our site. It's good to be home! It's going to be cold here tonight, but not as cold as much of the West. So we are happy and contented (mostly due to the wine and ginger snaps).
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