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RV Transformation continued…

Out with the old and in with the new…

RV Bath OLD

The Old Granny Colored Bath

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The New and Improved Bath

 

Spring – new beginning – a new canvas

We are now the proud parents of a 34′ Pace Arrow Vision motorhome.  Shiny (and I mean shiny) on the inside and fading on the outside – begging for a crazy paint job – our new canvas.

This baby is huge – so much taller and a longer than the Pinnacle of Love.  A road warrior.

The interior is a conundrum of sorts – apparently someones great grandmother had the honor of decorating this beauty – bedroom and bath plastered in gaudy shiny pink and spearmint floral wallpaper, valances and bedding ruffle wrapped – a dream gone bad.

As Dr. Seuss famously said “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

Be gone…….  old granny bedroom. Behold…. new and vivid.

Monday – the bathroom metamorphosis begins…

 

I have been advised…..

A kind note from my sister this morning advised me to blog more.

Being afraid of the Facebook over posting syndrome (you know the issue – those who share their Starbucks purchases and gym runs) I had decided to blog only occasionally.

So here goes with more description and more frequent postings……. You too can click the unlike or unsubscribe button if you deem to be over shared!

Invigorating

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.  That’s not alway comfortable, but it always invigorating.  – Michael Crichton, TRAVELS

Packing – 22 days and counting.

We did a test run on packing.  Everything is laid out and ready to assemble. Anxious? Crazy excited? Anal? My clothes weighed 7.6 pounds wrapped up in their little Packit Folder thingy from Eagle Creek!! Not bad. Also packing  toiletries, shoes (we’re both wearing our Dansko clogs and packing ultra light weight Nike Celso Flip Flops and 7 oz. Merrell Barefoot Access sneakers) and down pillows (we don’t leave home without them – an essential creature comfort from home).  Total packing weight goal – 15 pounds.

The Makings of a Travel Blog

Day three trying to figure out how to use WordPress to create our travel blog.  For someone who is a visual learner I have found it quite difficult learning how to design a blog from scratch by reading pages and pages of hidden “how to” know hows.  Of course you get what you pay for and there is no tech support telephone number only a series of “self-help” menus that take you deeper than the Titanic, click until you forgot what you were originally looking for, tech support. UGH…