How Cold is Too Cold to go Camping

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19F (-7C) is too cold to go camping when it comes on the heels of a wet, rainy day. Why? Things that should move when you push the button tend not to when they are frozen. For some, it was the leveling feet. For some, it was busted pipes flooding the storage compartment of their camper. For us, it was the bedroom closet slide-out (circled in photo) freezing in the extended position. Whether it actually froze from the cold is open to question. No matter what the reason, it wouldn't slide in. This meant we couldn't leave, at least not until we figured out how to get it to work. No easy task, I assure you. It took over 2 hours, advice from several friends, calls to so-called experts, and a random suggestion from the campground owner to accomplish retracting the slide. We were ready to leave the camper there, which meant me taking off work tomorrow and driving back to find an RV repair shop that makes campground calls. Thank goodness that didn't happen. Tomorrow, I will be calling the service manager where the camper was repaired and maintained to ask if he has any idea why the controller failed to activate the motor when all the fuses were good and the control box seemed fine. It will be an interesting call. Other than this glitch, we enjoyed the weekend. How about you? Did you have a good weekend?