Today, is the last day in August 2014, with
the dawn of our target month only a day away, it reminds me of a Neil Diamond
song, "September Morning", a verse in the song goes;
And look how far we've come
So far from where we used to be
But not so far that we've forgotten
How it was before
September morn
Do you remember
How we danced that night away
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way
We have come so far from where we were just a
few months ago, most of our furniture is gone, all the knick knacks and their
shelves, gone from the walls of our house.
I am no longer enslaved by the
workaday world, and my wife has continued to help out her friends in order to
earn a few dollars cash to help pay the bills while we are still in our
"sticks and bricks".
This has afforded me the time to work
on the motorhome and replace several items; water pump, water heater, convection
microwave, refrigerator circuit board, driving lights, reseal all the roof
seams, replace the front suspension air bags, front brake hoses and pads, tires,
etc. in hope to reduce the amount of unexpected "events" we may have
when we start our journey, like the one that happened early on this summer,
which could have ended our dream. This was when the faulty power converter, the
thing that turns 110 volts AC into 12 volts DC, almost caught fire, which could
have burned down our motorhome had I not happened to go inside it! also causing
the demise of my hardly used convection - microwave and the reason for the replacement.
When I searched for a replacement converter on the internet I found several sites showing a recall from long ago, on the model #7455 that replaced the original unit that was installed in our 1988 Holiday Rambler Imperial.
http://www.automd.com/recall/campaign_c11018/
Of course the company, Magnetek, that
made it was sold, and I never received a reply from the email I sent of my
concerns to Parallax the current owner. Needless to say, I have different brand
installed now.
This has been our second year we have
tried to sell everything using Craigslist, Ebay, and yard sales. We have found
the few weekends we were able to do a yard sale, several ones mother nature did
not want to cooperate with our plans. Fortunately on a few sunny days we were able
to sell quite a few items that will help to fund our life "on the
road"
A special thank you to friends and
family who bought things to help us out in our dream.
We have continued to work hard on our
dream to live fulltime in our motorhome, but have come to realize we still have
more things than we will be able to sell or give away, before it is time to hit
the road (soon) and the winter weather sets in. We've decided to pause our
attempt to rid ourselves of the smaller remaining items and focus on selling some
of the important and larger dollar items
such as the four cars, boat and ATV, then return in the spring to continue.
BTW: If you follow our blog, you will
notice an update to our home page picture of our motorhome on one of our
"trial runs".
So say a prayer that the next time you
read our blog, we will be on our way to fulfilling our dream and be on our way
south to winter in warmer territories, snowbirding somewhere in Florida is the
destination!
I got my toes in the water, ass in
the sand, not a worry in the world (Ha), a cold beer in my hand, life is good
today, life is good today.
Feel free to comment, but please keep
them positive.
Thanks for stopping by.
