Today, we finished moving into our new home. Here’s Gary moving a load from one RV to the other, down the steps, over the mat, up the stairs and into Nancy’s waiting arms.
We then let Camping World, the dealer, have it for several hours to fix some things we had found in our walk-through that needed to be fixed. That, of course, meant that we had to find some place else to camp out. We couldn’t go back to the Simba - that didn’t belong to us and had nothing in it anyway. Our second option was the dealer customer waiting area: bo-o-oring. So, we went to MacDonalds to have a bite to eat and to sit to relax for a while. We’ve been on a merry-go-round for a while and it was nice to just sit. In a MacDonalds? Well, it was better than our other two options.
Meanwhile we called our neighbor to tell him that we were not going to be coming back tonight to the resort but would be back on Friday afternoon. But, first let me explain a rule of our resort. Every RV lot has a spot for an RV, a cement section for a patio and a section big enough to park 2 cars. And everyone gets a tag to hang in the car from the rear-view mirror to show to the entry booth as we enter the resort whenever we leave. Because this is still October and lots of RV lots are still empty, there are lots of extra spots and some people park their cars there, next to their lot. Since the resort has RV’s moving in every day, people might park in a spot that someone is moving into. So, the resort gives tickets and has threatened to tow cars parked in spots that are not their owners spots. That’s the rule and now here’s what happened and, I’m sure, you can see the punch line to this story already.
We had taken our tag with us to put in the new RV so we could show it to them as we entered with our new RV. Thus, there was no tag on our Jeep sitting in our lot. But, since it was our lot and our Jeep, we saw no problem. As our neighbor was talking to us on his cell phone, telling us that everything was ok, he was walking over to check on it and, sure enough, we had a ticket on the windshield of the Jeep - with the threat that the Jeep would be towed next. Ouch. No tickee, no parking spot. Obviously, the park rangers thought that the car was in a spot where it didn’t belong and had ticketed it.
I called the resort, explained the problem and got their assurance that we would not be towed. Whew. We already have enough on our plates.
Camping World finished our new RV and we had some more time to arrange our stuff in it. Here’s a floor plan of our new RV. The squares on the floor indicate tile. Luckily, we have lots of tile - so much easier to clean thatn carpet. RV’s used to have all carpet but then the manufacturers asked people what they actually wanted: fancy that, actually asking the customers. And, most RV’ers wanted tile or linoleum or something easy to clean. This has lots of tile and will be mostly easy to clean. I will, however, miss the central vac in the Simba. We’ll have to buy a small vac so I can dust and vacuum.
Here’s an interesting picture for all of you who know that Gary and Nancy don’t watch much TV. We have 3 TV’s, one in the main coach, one in the bedroom and here’s the outside TV. Oh, boy. One of our friends thought this was a great idea since he could watch TV as he grilled, which he does often.
I will admit that I am a bit disappointed in two features of this new RV. Firstly, the sink is smaller. Now, my rule is: if you can see dirty dishes, you must wash them. If you can’t see those dirty dishes, you don’t have to wash them. I was a master at stowing dishes in the previous sink since it was larger. I knew how to pack them tightly. This sink is smaller and I can’t stow as many dirty dishes in it so will have to wash them more. shaky-darn.
Secondly, the mirror in the bedroom is a convex mirror. Our mirror in our bathroom in Iowa is concave - which makes you look slimmer (I'm thinking that this is a great selling point for our house.) This one is convex and you look a bit chunky. Too bad.
I’m thinking I’ll get over these two little setbacks.
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