How to make a drink during a motorhome journey

It is illegal to use the gas on a motorway services and many other car parks so we use a thermos flask. Probably easier anyway to fill this when you are packing up than putting the gas on and boiling a kettle later.

 

I never knew that, we always spark up the hob on route.

Purists look away now.........

In 15 years I've never turned my gas off between March and October except when on a ferry and use the hob to make a brew, the oven to heat a pie etc., wherever I am.

Neither do I turn my gas off at home when I go away.

It is illegal to use the gas on a motorway services and many other car parks so we use a thermos flask. Probably easier anyway to fill this when you are packing up than putting the gas on and boiling a kettle later.

 

I never knew that, we always spark up the hob on route.

So do we 

I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.

 

Write your comments here...you might laugh but I read about a bloke in America who did just that and crashed. He sued the manufacturer because the handbook didn't say he couldn't and won! Only in America

That was an amazing case.  Perhaps the handbook should say something about gas on the move I really wouldn't want to be anywhere  near a MH with gas turned on while driving.

The MHs have a special safety system that allows them to have the gas on.

I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.

 

you might laugh but I read about a bloke in America who did just that and crashed. He sued the manufacturer because the handbook didn't say he couldn't and won! Only in America

It's an urban myth that's been going around since 1998.

SNOPES says.........

 

I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.

 

you might laugh but I read about a bloke in America who did just that and crashed. He sued the manufacturer because the handbook didn't say he couldn't and won! Only in America

It's an urban myth that's been going around since 1998.

Whoops! the wretched site timed out on me.

See SNOPES.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp

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Purists look away now.........

In 15 years I've never turned my gas off between March and October except when on a ferry and use the hob to make a brew, the oven to heat a pie etc., wherever I am.

Neither do I turn my gas off at home when I go away.

We are very similar. Gas gets turned on (at the bottle) at the begining of our trip and doesn't get turned off until we get home, unless we go on a ferry of course. Depending on how long we are going to drive for and what the weather is like, I will either (when its cold) fill a flask with boiling water, or put a bottle of water in the fridge for cold drinks en-route, we often drink diluted juice rather than fizzy drinks, failing that a carton of juice. We usually stop for a break every 2-3 hours of at least 15-20mins. I have used the gas hob to make drinks and the grill to warm food up while parked up, we tend not to use service stations (horrible smelly things) for lunch breaks but OH will stop to get a paper and a walk around in them. We like to find somewhere nice for having our lunch so often come off the motorway/main road to park up.

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