E&H Hitch. Langley, BC

I am so pleased with my Demco Excali-bar 3. Hitch. E&H Hitch took my Jeep Wrangler for 3 days last week.  Friday I drove my Thor Hurricane out to Langley. It’s been three months serving as my home and office so it was a challenge to prepare the land barge for road traffic.  Maybe an hour was all it took. Thankfully Merry Maids cleaners had been by on Thursday.  The earth was not hit by a meteorite.  Global warming aka Climate change didn’t take me out on the journey.  

I arrived and the wonderful people at E&H Hitch were waiting for me.  Beautiful kindly admin staff and this truly terrific technician who I’m convinced is used to dealing with nearing dementia motorhome owners with near apoplexy at even the thought of towing a vehicle.  Thanks to my guides and inspirations Peter and Larry , the parents of Madigan’s friends Havanese Bella and Luka, I’ve been reassured all along.  

E&H explained everything like I was a grade student. Demco really had made it quite easy.  A really nice rig.  “We only work with three types of hitch because they’re the best and we don’t want to put people’s lives at risk with this lower quality cheap hitch’s that on the market.’  I liked that. I catastrophise and had already considered going around the corner on a narrow cliff road and thee jeep veering off and dragging Madigan and me plummeting now the steep precipice. Even my nuclear physicist engineer nephew as impressed with the my hitch.  

The manual gear is in neutral and the regular gear in park.  There’s a switch in a little box by the driver’s foot and that has to be switched on to avoid draining the battery.   There’s are a couple of mystery boxes under the hood and then the actual hitch which has an electric component and a kill switch much like one has for the motor on a dinghy.   Someone has thought of all the potential risks and made this hitch so I can pull a jeep behind my Thor Motorhome. The Jeep is the favored tow vehicle but there are others that can flat tow.  

Thank E&H Hitch I was pleased to drive away towing the Jeep not actually having any sensation of effort or change.  Peter had said you won’t even know it’s there except that you’ll be aware of it on turns and that you are longer than before.  There’s no strain or effort.  

I called Sunshine Valley RV Camp out beyond Hope and sure enough they could accommodate me for two nights and had pull throughs .I wasn’t sure I wanted to unhook the Jeep but I wanted to see if it worked . My imagination had me fishtailing down the high way in the wind. Nothing untoward happened.  I had a great drive the hour and a half out to Sunshine Valley.

I love Sunshine Valley RV.  After a hot tub I couldn’t resist unattaching the Jeep.  I took pictures and made pretty sure I could put it back together. It’s straight forward. But can be quite overwhelmed with little things despite having done surgery, delivered babies and sailed off shore solo.  Sunshine Valley RV is famous for its quadding and offroad motorcycling. I’ve been us quite a few times doing that with my quads over the years. I’ve never had the Jeep offroad.  So much for my plan just to drive out here.  

I really enjoyed the Jeep Wrangler.  I took it essentially where I took the quad on the back road running along the river and up to the mountain. I loved it.  Madigan loved it. Back at the Thor motorhome I had all the comforts after that, shower and kitchen, dinner and tv.  Walking Madigan out of the city is a joy.  I sleep like a dream and this morning drove the Jeep the half hour into Hope to pick up some targets 22 LR anmmo.    Back here again we headed through Alpine Estates across the bridge onto the logging road up to the little trail I’d found years before. Someone else before me had set up a target in a canyon. I’ve sighted in my 30 06 there.  Today I shot a box of 22 L rifle shells and peppered the target thinking if it had been a grouse I might not get a head shot but I ‘d not go hungry.  Younger I was always getting the head shot. Today I’m just glad to be out in the woods target practicing.  

I love my Jeep Wrangler, my Thor Hurricane and the Demco Excali-bar.  Hitch.  

Thank you God for these days of glory. Thanks for keeping Madigan and I safe. Thanks for Engineers and Technicians and all the advances of science and transportation.,  

Thank you for Sunshine Valley RV Park.  

Thank you God.