Sunday, February 19, 2012
Days 4,5,6
Day 4 More Settling: First full shower - wonderful. Water pressure fine, hot water excellent, and even roominess of shower, all fine. Lots of little things to pick up, lots of little things to organize, lots of little lessons learned. Everybody settling in a little further.
Day 5 & 6 Working: these two days were really about my husband settling in to a work routine. Finding comfortable spots to park for the day and setting up for 8 or so hours of working. Really the routine that will dominate most of our time for the foreseeable future. I'm gone all day and Pearl is the home office for my husband and Inca the Road Dog chills out all day watching out the windows and sleeping on the couch. Not a bad life I must say.
Day 3 Settling In:
Had to work today so didn't get to spend much time in Pearl. Started the morning with a shower in the apartment, I mention that because I was chicken to take one in the coach. Just need to work a bit more on my comfort level. I will get there quickly!
My husband spent the day at the Baylands taking care of business details. Used generator - very quiet, less than traffic noise!
Road Dog Inca is beside herself happy. She loves to be out and about more than anything so she is just in her element. Sitting up front looking out the window at the world going by and LOVIN it!
Found that to get a owners manual for Pearl Fleetwood requires that you actually write a check and send it snail mail and then they will snail mail or email you the manual. Wow seriously???? Ordered personalized plate for Pearl (TTREKN) to officially take Turtle Trekkin on the road! Ordered Good Sam extended warranty and Insurance so Pearl is all official and protected.
Tonight we are dry camping at a spot that we have scoped out where other campers have set up. Able to put the bedroom slide out and have a bit more room. Growing awareness of full timer reality, like realistic water consumption levels, reality of bathroom size (tiny but manageable), power management, wifi availability, true gas mileage numbers, the danger of low hanging trees, and what I have termed the "RV Dance". This is what all three of us do to move about in Pearl. Inca's in the aisle and I walk forward and she walks back; we dance until we get where we need to be, same with my husband. It's not too small a space, to navigate around each other, it's the RV Dance and it can actually be quite fun and amusing.
Came home and opened a cabinet to get a book and they all fell on my head. I believe the stewardess told us to "Use caution when opening the over head bins as items may have shifted in flight". LESSON LEARNED!
My husband spent the day at the Baylands taking care of business details. Used generator - very quiet, less than traffic noise!
Road Dog Inca is beside herself happy. She loves to be out and about more than anything so she is just in her element. Sitting up front looking out the window at the world going by and LOVIN it!
Found that to get a owners manual for Pearl Fleetwood requires that you actually write a check and send it snail mail and then they will snail mail or email you the manual. Wow seriously???? Ordered personalized plate for Pearl (TTREKN) to officially take Turtle Trekkin on the road! Ordered Good Sam extended warranty and Insurance so Pearl is all official and protected.
Tonight we are dry camping at a spot that we have scoped out where other campers have set up. Able to put the bedroom slide out and have a bit more room. Growing awareness of full timer reality, like realistic water consumption levels, reality of bathroom size (tiny but manageable), power management, wifi availability, true gas mileage numbers, the danger of low hanging trees, and what I have termed the "RV Dance". This is what all three of us do to move about in Pearl. Inca's in the aisle and I walk forward and she walks back; we dance until we get where we need to be, same with my husband. It's not too small a space, to navigate around each other, it's the RV Dance and it can actually be quite fun and amusing.
Came home and opened a cabinet to get a book and they all fell on my head. I believe the stewardess told us to "Use caution when opening the over head bins as items may have shifted in flight". LESSON LEARNED!
Day 2 Organizing:
Back & forth, back & forth, back & forth.
By the end of the day we had everything we needed in the coach. Leaving only cleaning essentials in the apartment.
Although storage space is limited we found that because we have been so diligent about keeping "things" to a minimum we had more than enough room for all our stuff. In fact, we have tons of storage room still available. The key is to not rush to fill it with more "things" that we really don't need. We have everything we need right now!
My husband had to work especially hard today because I suffer from migraines and unfortunately I had one hit during the morning and was mostly out of it on the coaches couch all day. But I learned a very important lesson from that - the couch is incredibly comfortable!
We thought we might keep the dinette broken down into bed form and make it a reading nook for me with lots of pillows but soon realized that it is very nice to sit across from each other for meals. Our apartment had a breakfast bar and we sat at it for our meals in the apartment so we didn't think a dinette would really be used.
Haven't even used the generator yet. Nervous about how loud it will be.
Brought our mattress from the apartment to the RV, but RV queen size mattress is not regular queen size mattress, enough shorter that we cannot use ours, LESSON LEARNED!
Coach is now named - Pearl. Why Pearl will remain between my husband and I :-)
By the end of the day we had everything we needed in the coach. Leaving only cleaning essentials in the apartment.
Although storage space is limited we found that because we have been so diligent about keeping "things" to a minimum we had more than enough room for all our stuff. In fact, we have tons of storage room still available. The key is to not rush to fill it with more "things" that we really don't need. We have everything we need right now!
My husband had to work especially hard today because I suffer from migraines and unfortunately I had one hit during the morning and was mostly out of it on the coaches couch all day. But I learned a very important lesson from that - the couch is incredibly comfortable!
We thought we might keep the dinette broken down into bed form and make it a reading nook for me with lots of pillows but soon realized that it is very nice to sit across from each other for meals. Our apartment had a breakfast bar and we sat at it for our meals in the apartment so we didn't think a dinette would really be used.
Haven't even used the generator yet. Nervous about how loud it will be.
Brought our mattress from the apartment to the RV, but RV queen size mattress is not regular queen size mattress, enough shorter that we cannot use ours, LESSON LEARNED!
Coach is now named - Pearl. Why Pearl will remain between my husband and I :-)
Finally a chance to write
I'm a little late like 2 weeks, getting to this post but there has been so much to do and by the time I take a deep breath each night I am so exhausted I can only fall into bed. So I'm catching up in a posting frenzy, please forgive the flood.
Day 1 Maiden Voyage: Over 100 miles for the shake down cruise and it was AWESOME! The coach handled like a dream.
Though there is no such thing as a quick detour in an RV. Five miles off the freeway for a store stop doesn't take 10 minutes like in a car. RV Trekkin is most definitely Turtle speed! LESSON LEARNED!
There is no' just put in a couple bucks of gas", $200 later ... you know it in your head but to actually see it on the pump ... STICKER SHOCK!
Make sure all drawers are completely closed prior to taking off as they will fly open in transit. LESSON LEARNED!
Our plan was to come back to the apartment and start moving a few things at a time into the coach, after all we have a whole month before we have to be out of the apartment. NOT! We were so excited when we started moving things that we just kept going and before we knew it we were 80% moved in.
The first night we stayed on the street right outside the apartment and sleeping was amazingly comfortable and easy. Woke refreshed and ready for our first full day in our new home.
Day 1 Maiden Voyage: Over 100 miles for the shake down cruise and it was AWESOME! The coach handled like a dream.
Though there is no such thing as a quick detour in an RV. Five miles off the freeway for a store stop doesn't take 10 minutes like in a car. RV Trekkin is most definitely Turtle speed! LESSON LEARNED!
There is no' just put in a couple bucks of gas", $200 later ... you know it in your head but to actually see it on the pump ... STICKER SHOCK!
Make sure all drawers are completely closed prior to taking off as they will fly open in transit. LESSON LEARNED!
Our plan was to come back to the apartment and start moving a few things at a time into the coach, after all we have a whole month before we have to be out of the apartment. NOT! We were so excited when we started moving things that we just kept going and before we knew it we were 80% moved in.
The first night we stayed on the street right outside the apartment and sleeping was amazingly comfortable and easy. Woke refreshed and ready for our first full day in our new home.
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