Trailer Hitch is a Go!

Trailer hitch--installed!

Our trailer hitch arrived today! This is a Curt 13105 Class III receiver hitch, newly mounted to our 2008 Toyota Sienna Limited, and together they will bring my trailer home from Oregon. (Yep, we decided: we'll do the drive ourselves to save us the dealer's $500 surcharge.)

The hitch is just the first component that the Sienna needs to make it tow-ready; we still need to install a wiring harness and, most likely, a brake controller. We're also looking at a set of air springs to give the back end extra support when the trailer's tongue weight comes knocking.


I hope to get all that done by early next month, which will be easy enough if the shipping is as fast and the installation as straightforward as it was for the hitch! Dad and I did the job in maybe an hour. Of course, we had plenty of help from the dog and two kittens...

Cosmo is bored of this game.

Lightfoot the kitten, AKA Kazam, AKA the Curiosity Rover.

(Lightfoot's brother, Pippin, not pictured.) ...You know, life without pets would be incredibly boring. I'll really have to find a way to keep a cat or dog in my tiny house--but that's a post for another day.