Good Morning Blog Buddies,
Well, yesterday we moved most of our possessions into climate controlled storage. It took about 5 hours to load up and unload - we had the help of 4 other people so it went quickly and smoothly. That being said, I must say that these 71 year old bones are hurting this morning! We kept the bare minimal household items for our 6 month stint in the Unit At The Top Of The Hill.
Once the house is sold, we will move into this Unit ( 1 bedroom apartment) for a period of 6 months. We have delayed the start of our RV adventure for a couple of reasons:
1. My DW Melissa will be releasing her middle grade novel to the public sometime in very early October.
2, Melissa has several book signings scheduled - which happen to be in colder climates which would not be applicable to RV living as most if not all RV parks in cold climates close for the winter.
So we decided it would be better and easier to hold off on our RV adventure start until April 2012. WE have a saying - "make things easy - keep things simple."
After many, many months of RV research, we have decided on the following plan:
In early October we will travel to Elkhart Indiana ( the RV manufacturing capital of the USA) and tour the factory and facilities of NEXUS which is a new RV manufacturer in the market. The company is owned and run by 2 fellows who have gobs and gobs of experience with RVs. Additionally they have recruited some pretty top notch people to build these RVs.
If all my research bears out, and after watching their construction practices and touching - holding - rubbing - sitting - laying - looking and thoroughly examining their product we feel certain that all will be exactly as it is represented to be. At this point, we will place an order for a 31 foot Class C RV to be constructed as we want it and to be ready for us to pick up 4/1/12.
At this point the plan is to come back to Santa Fe and stay a couple of weeks, getting out of storage those items that we will need in the RV - clothes, pots & pans etc etc - and painting supplies of course!! During our 2 week+/- stay in NM we will learn how to operate the various systems in our RV - once comfortable, we will proceed to a journey up the East Coast - visiting relatives, a stay in Maine where we lived at one time and then on up into Nova Scotia for most of the summer at various RV parks
Beyond this still needs to be planned out but that we have plenty of time to do.
Soooooo exciting times ahead for me and Melissa, with the release of her novel and its marketing being the most exciting and at this time the most important task we face before starting our RV journey.
Later my friends-------- :>) RJ
