We picked up our MotorHome from being serviced by the dealer just in time to leave on our 4 month adventure to Nova Scotia. They fixed everything we asked but-t-t-t, the toilet has issues and is short parts. Better yet while trying to fix it, the dealer made it worse.
The real story is, those of you that know me well, know that I read manuals front to back and then back to front. Well-l-l-l I discovered the toilet in the back bathroom is programmable :). Really it is programmable. Well-l-l-l I had to put in my own custom program. Needless to say during my experiment I discovered that it didn’t function as described. A programmable toilet that doesn’t raise and lower the water as I programmed, What is a guy to do :)
I suspect that I am the 1st ever person to ever read the directions of a programmable toilet and then try to actually program it :)
I think the dealer thought I was nuts.
Well-l-l-l, I was right
So now we need parts and they won’t be available in time for our trip. Since we have 2 toilets on board, no big deal, after all we are retired and are not suppose to let this stuff bother us.
I told Sandy on the way home that we are retired, day 1, and now have only 1 pot to Psss in. Of course this is my humor, not hers, but I got a laugh which is all that counts.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Destinations Unlimited — Who, What, Where, When and Why
I see Bill has posted a few comments that most will wonder what he is talking about, so thought I’d bring everyone up to speed on our plans.
What? We’ve been dreaming of traveling the country in retirement for as long as I can remember, with our travels with the girls for 5 years in our first motorhome in 2000 to the west, northeast and south solidifying our desire to do even more travel ‘on the road’ and see more of the country.
How? We have bought a home on wheels, Bill has posted a few photos already. It has been an intense, detailed experience of deciding which one, with more blog posts to come on that in the future. Bill is tired of staying in hotels so much for work. Our own bed and no packing/unpacking needed. We will be towing a vehicle for local side trips along the way.
Who? Bill and I. And we hope to meet up with friends as we travel around the country and reconnect with friends/relatives we haven’t see in a while, so once we list our path periodically, if you’re on our route and would like to meet up with us, please let us know! We’d love to get together.
Why? —Adventure
— Get out of our ‘9-5’ rut
— Our girls are on opposite ends of the country, Georgia and Oregon, and we don’t get to see them in person nearly enough. A flight once a year and squeezing it in around work schedules or holidays just left a lot to be desired in terms of family time. We’re hoping to get to see them more often in retirement and for longer periods of time, so a condo on wheels is the way to go.
— Unlimited destinations. We have been to all but 6 states in the US and want to get to all of them, for the first time and/or again. (Except Hawaii of course, which we wiped out this past year)
— Meet some great people who also travel for fun.
Where? — Our first trip will be 4 months through New York and Maine up into Canada to the Bay of Fundy, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Quebec City, Montreal, and Thousand Islands NY.
— The national parks are high on our list.
— Wherever our girls may be.
— See the photo of our map of places we’ve been wanting to go. We’ve had this map up for more than a year and pinned places that are definite stopping points.
— We will be in the southeast during the late fall and winter.
— Heading west in spring 2019 to the mountains that are Sandy’s preferred destination.
When? We leave on our first adventure just 2 days after we are both retired! It’s been busy trying to get all the pieces together to be on the road so soon, and I had to negotiate those two days from Bill. He wanted to leave the day he left work. Retiring early while we still have our health to realize this dream was important to both of us. There will be no sitting still in retirement anytime soon.
Written by Sandy
What? We’ve been dreaming of traveling the country in retirement for as long as I can remember, with our travels with the girls for 5 years in our first motorhome in 2000 to the west, northeast and south solidifying our desire to do even more travel ‘on the road’ and see more of the country.
How? We have bought a home on wheels, Bill has posted a few photos already. It has been an intense, detailed experience of deciding which one, with more blog posts to come on that in the future. Bill is tired of staying in hotels so much for work. Our own bed and no packing/unpacking needed. We will be towing a vehicle for local side trips along the way.
Who? Bill and I. And we hope to meet up with friends as we travel around the country and reconnect with friends/relatives we haven’t see in a while, so once we list our path periodically, if you’re on our route and would like to meet up with us, please let us know! We’d love to get together.
Why? —Adventure
— Get out of our ‘9-5’ rut
— Our girls are on opposite ends of the country, Georgia and Oregon, and we don’t get to see them in person nearly enough. A flight once a year and squeezing it in around work schedules or holidays just left a lot to be desired in terms of family time. We’re hoping to get to see them more often in retirement and for longer periods of time, so a condo on wheels is the way to go.
— Unlimited destinations. We have been to all but 6 states in the US and want to get to all of them, for the first time and/or again. (Except Hawaii of course, which we wiped out this past year)
— Meet some great people who also travel for fun.
Where? — Our first trip will be 4 months through New York and Maine up into Canada to the Bay of Fundy, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Quebec City, Montreal, and Thousand Islands NY.
— The national parks are high on our list.
— Wherever our girls may be.
— See the photo of our map of places we’ve been wanting to go. We’ve had this map up for more than a year and pinned places that are definite stopping points.
— We will be in the southeast during the late fall and winter.
— Heading west in spring 2019 to the mountains that are Sandy’s preferred destination.
When? We leave on our first adventure just 2 days after we are both retired! It’s been busy trying to get all the pieces together to be on the road so soon, and I had to negotiate those two days from Bill. He wanted to leave the day he left work. Retiring early while we still have our health to realize this dream was important to both of us. There will be no sitting still in retirement anytime soon.
Written by Sandy
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First visit to the Dump Station “Oh Shit” I mean??
We pulled into Pymatuning State Park with fully loaded Black and Gray Water Tanks.
We pulled up to the dump station. First problem is the dump station was designed in a horseshoe layout designed for a much smaller rv. With a little finess we were able to shoe horn the MotorHome in place.
I connected up my new dump hose with the new 1/4 turn quick connect, inserted the hose into the dump, opened the Black water valve and “Oh Shit, I mean Oh Crap, it leaked. I closed the valve, grabbed a screwdriver, tightened the clamp, opened the valve and “Oh Shit, it happened again. Of course Sandy “my helpful cohort was full of instructions, lots of help, as she stood back out of the way, out of shooting distance. I love all that advice while in the middle of a disaster??? :).
Needless to say the 1/4 turn connector got tossed into the trash.
Luckily the tanks were full of bleach water that I had used to sanitize the plumbing so I did not have to take a hazmat shower.
We pulled up to the dump station. First problem is the dump station was designed in a horseshoe layout designed for a much smaller rv. With a little finess we were able to shoe horn the MotorHome in place.
I connected up my new dump hose with the new 1/4 turn quick connect, inserted the hose into the dump, opened the Black water valve and “Oh Shit, I mean Oh Crap, it leaked. I closed the valve, grabbed a screwdriver, tightened the clamp, opened the valve and “Oh Shit, it happened again. Of course Sandy “my helpful cohort was full of instructions, lots of help, as she stood back out of the way, out of shooting distance. I love all that advice while in the middle of a disaster??? :).
Needless to say the 1/4 turn connector got tossed into the trash.
Luckily the tanks were full of bleach water that I had used to sanitize the plumbing so I did not have to take a hazmat shower.
We have completed loading the MotorHome, dewinterized it, and done two trial runs. First to Salt Fork State Park and recently to Pymatuning State Park. We have learned:
- We forgot a lot of what we once knew about traveling in an Rv
- Pull into the campsite so that your utilities are on the correct side
- Pay attention to how level the site is prior to pulling in
- Pay attention to the mud on the door side of the site
- Pay attention to if and where the picnic table is located
- Watch out for the low hanging trees
- It will take you longer than you are expecting to set-up and breakdown camp. Hopefully this will get smoother the more we do it.
- We still need to put together our checklists of procedures so we don’t forget something important
We also had a very enjoyable visit from our long time camping friends “The Shelton’s”. Good Time
We also met up with Pam Bloom for Dinner on way home from Pymatuning
We have discovered some things that we need Winnebago and General RV to fix prior to our initial 4 month Journey to Nova Scotia
We are 3 weeks from RETIREMENT and the excitement is starting to settle in
The other realization is I need to get more into this Blog :)
3 weeks YA-HOO!!!
- We forgot a lot of what we once knew about traveling in an Rv
- Pull into the campsite so that your utilities are on the correct side
- Pay attention to how level the site is prior to pulling in
- Pay attention to the mud on the door side of the site
- Pay attention to if and where the picnic table is located
- Watch out for the low hanging trees
- It will take you longer than you are expecting to set-up and breakdown camp. Hopefully this will get smoother the more we do it.
- We still need to put together our checklists of procedures so we don’t forget something important
We also had a very enjoyable visit from our long time camping friends “The Shelton’s”. Good Time
We also met up with Pam Bloom for Dinner on way home from Pymatuning
We have discovered some things that we need Winnebago and General RV to fix prior to our initial 4 month Journey to Nova Scotia
We are 3 weeks from RETIREMENT and the excitement is starting to settle in
The other realization is I need to get more into this Blog :)
3 weeks YA-HOO!!!
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