March ’06,
Well I hate to admit it, but we’ve been back awhile… Fact is, I am writing this much after the March date above, so I’ve got some catching up to do. Sometime in late February Louise and I started looking in earnest for our “New Home” (our RV). While we were in Europe we had pretty much decided that we would get back and purchase a “5th wheel trailer (caravan), but I should have known better. By the middle of March we had found ourselves “committed” to a Motor Home instead of the 5th wheel. It has all the things that we “thought” we needed and a few more, but the deal that really made it work was getting behind the wheel of this “bus” vs. the pickup pulling the 5th wheel trailer…it just fit (now that’s me talking…). As always, any time you purchase anything new and you ask for a couple of “small” changes, it delays delivery, and this was no exception. Once we received our keys and had the walk through, we headed off for our first night in our new home. You would have thought we would have put a lot of thought into were we would be going for such a momentous occasion, but not us…we ended up staying in the parking lot of a grade school. The Lord was with us, because the police didn’t come and knock on our door in the middle of the night and ask us to pack up and get out. The dealer from which we had made our purchase had given us a gift of a weeks stay at a campground in Fall City (just outside of Bellevue Washington), so that is where we spent the next 4 nights. This was set up so that we should have the opportunity to try out everything and make sure that it worked before we got too far away. From there we went over the mountains to Yakima to see Leslee and the kids, help them move, and get a little more aquatinted with the handling of the coach on the road. Well, there were a few little glitches that the dealer had to take care of, so all this last 2 weeks was good to stay close.
Well I hate to admit it, but we’ve been back awhile… Fact is, I am writing this much after the March date above, so I’ve got some catching up to do. Sometime in late February Louise and I started looking in earnest for our “New Home” (our RV). While we were in Europe we had pretty much decided that we would get back and purchase a “5th wheel trailer (caravan), but I should have known better. By the middle of March we had found ourselves “committed” to a Motor Home instead of the 5th wheel. It has all the things that we “thought” we needed and a few more, but the deal that really made it work was getting behind the wheel of this “bus” vs. the pickup pulling the 5th wheel trailer…it just fit (now that’s me talking…). As always, any time you purchase anything new and you ask for a couple of “small” changes, it delays delivery, and this was no exception. Once we received our keys and had the walk through, we headed off for our first night in our new home. You would have thought we would have put a lot of thought into were we would be going for such a momentous occasion, but not us…we ended up staying in the parking lot of a grade school. The Lord was with us, because the police didn’t come and knock on our door in the middle of the night and ask us to pack up and get out. The dealer from which we had made our purchase had given us a gift of a weeks stay at a campground in Fall City (just outside of Bellevue Washington), so that is where we spent the next 4 nights. This was set up so that we should have the opportunity to try out everything and make sure that it worked before we got too far away. From there we went over the mountains to Yakima to see Leslee and the kids, help them move, and get a little more aquatinted with the handling of the coach on the road. Well, there were a few little glitches that the dealer had to take care of, so all this last 2 weeks was good to stay close.