RV Improvements

No RV is a perfect fit for all people. We are constantly improving storage and sometimes modifying our RV to improve our comfort. Here is a summary of what we have done thus far to both our former RV an Ontour 2.2 and our current RV a Plateau XLTS.

Update on our Backup Camera

This is an update to our 2025 Improvements post concerning the installation of a second backup camera on our RV. In case you didn’t read that post, we had no way to see behind the RV as we drove. The rearview mirror on the chassis is useless as it only provides a view of the…

Improvements for the 2025 travel season

We have written an “improvements” post each spring since we started this blog in 2022. Here is another, a little more on the technical side. A concern that many people who do not own an RV ask is, how difficult is it to drive? Class B Vans such as our Ontour 2.2 was only 21’…

A few improvements before the start of the 2024 travel season

The temperatures have started to climb on the East Coast and that’s when the realization hit home that “Travel Season” is just a few months away. We best get started on all the improvements we contemplated doing when we purchased the Plateau XLTS last October so we will be ready for our first trip in…

A few more improvements

Traveling comfortably for long periods in a Class B RV is a struggle between bringing along the items you want versus what you can actually carry, without filling the rig with so much stuff that there is limited room to move around inside the RV. The image above is from our trip to North Carolina…

A few improvements before we leave (Part One)

Class B RV’s are built on a van chassis from the prior year. Our 2020 Pleasure-Way is built on a 2019 Ford Transit chassis. Unfortunately for us, the 2019 chassis lacks many safety and convenience features, such as blind spot detection, a tire pressure monitoring system and swivel seats, that are standard on the 2020…

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