The Long Winter

With soo much to look forward to this spring, it makes the winter months drag by!!  This is especially true for Rick who is counting the days left for work!!! 


​Since our maiden voyage with the new RV, we have been in preparation/transition mode for our full time RV journey.  We took the RV back down to the dealership for them to winterize it and work on the "TO DO"  list from our walk thru.  We have been working with the dealership and Grand Design over the last couple months to ensure everything will be ready come April. 

We have also been making some purchases as well as selling things.  We have been selling some items we no longer use on the FB Buy, Sell, Trade's and Ebay.  We also hosted both our families Christmas parties this year and they identified the holiday items they wanted.  I was like a notetaker, making sure I logged all the items.  Once Christmas was over, we packaged everything up for each person.  Happy to report I only have two bins of misc. items left for a rummage sale and/or Goodwill.  

It almost seems like there is more coming in than there is going out.  Christmas this year was all about what we will need on the road.  It was not as hard this year to think of what to get each other or what to put on lists for others.   I will do a post for those items, with links, for those interested.  

We also sold our Outback camper, rather quickly.  We posted it on Craig's List first as well as the local FB Buy, Sell, Trade's.  We were selling it with most everything in it, so it was ready to go.  We had a couple general inquiries and then we received a text from a couple on a Saturday that wanted to come look at it the following day.  They came out Sunday and spent an hour or so with RIck, walking through it, asking questions about camping in general and asking about our upcoming transition.  They then said they were going to think about it and call us, but did mention that they were very interested.    Well, in less than 30 minutes they called back and wanted to take it.  They came back with a deposit to put down and we arranged for them to come back in two weeks to help Rick winterize it so they understood how to do it.  They are an older couple who had a pop up several years back when they camped with their kids and now they would like to take their grandchildren camping.  They were sooo excited to get back into camping and really liked the camper since it had bunk beds.  We have stored the camper for them since they did not have a place lined up and they will be picking it up in April.  We even gave them all sorts of information on state campgrounds we have been to and the best sites at each.  It is good to see the camper going to a family who is going to take good care of it and is excited to get back into camping.

​

---