5 March 2012
Dear RV Diary,
Well it’s unofficially official…I have decided on an RV that
I am wanting!
Purchasing something sight unseen has very rarely ended well
for people BUT in the next few weeks I may be doing just that.
In the past every RV’er I have talked to just rave about
having a slide. I gotta tell ya…I’m not really sold on the extra 3 feet and the
maintenance that I could incur with having a slide in my own RV…So that’s just
another reason I am really smitten with this RV…NO SLIDE OUT! J
I appreciate the way it is laid out and I think it has a
nice flow…Fung Shui, if you will, feel to it.
Interior wise and mentally I have already moved my stuff in
and can visualize the upgrade to the flooring and some little things I will be
improving on.
All that needs to check out is mechanical wise (AND the
money from my house being sold AND an RV loan AND the trade in allowance from
my Pathfinder) and the RV dealer has himself a deal!
I guess I’m not really a fancy bells and whistles sort of
gal…I really thought I would be more into that… But I am actually more
concerned with mechanical…and when I say mechanical I mean a good solid engine
and a good solid none leaking, no damage, NOT flashy that screams “Rob ME” sort
of an RV.
I think I found just that!
It is a 2003 Thor Dutchman 31. So with any luck it will
still be available when I am ready to purchase it in April/May and it will have
a solid engine, solid generator and solid interior. (This is where I say a
quite whisper prayer to my angels and the big “G”).
Aside from my usual RV daydream I accomplished packing a few
more boxes and will start bringing a few at a time over to Mom’s house. I
really have less then 20 boxes and once I get them all over there and me out of
here I plan on going through them and downsizing at least once more. Its SUPER
hard to predict what you will need and what you won’t miss at all.
Fortunately
or unfortunately, I am the keeper of tons of crap that has been handed down to
me and qualifies as “sentimental.” And I can’t forget my own personal stuff
that I think has historic value, such as my military uniform, ribbons/awards
and some photographs of my military service of when I was in the war.
I think stuff like this should be held onto especially since
I am the first women on either side of my family trees to ever be in the
military and also be in a war.
Hmmm, maybe I can vacuum seal this stuff so it fits smaller.
The other option: Mom said I can store stuff at her house. I really just want to down size and get rid of it all BUT some stuff I may just have to.
James already said he wanted the dinner set I brought back from Iraq. Which is great and all but he is just now turning 18. SO this will be stored at Mom's until he one day has a home of his own to have it in.
And I plan on scanning like 95% of my photographs into my
computer/cd or giving the kids pics with them in it…But the other 5% are antique pictures of family and some modern
photographs that are priceless to me…Also I plan on hanging them around my
RV…After all it is my new home!
Love ~Vivi
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