Busy, busy, busy!

I guess over two months is long enough to be away.  I can't even remember everything.  There was the big King fire that consumed a lot of time following and then the eating smoke.  Larry was gone on fires only three times this season.  Andrea's family has been here just this past weekend.  AND we searched for and found a used travel trailer that we bought nine days ago.

We decided on a Thursday to start looking for what we wanted.  We found it over the weekend and on that Monday went to Vacaville to see it.  It was exactly as the owners said, so we bought it and discovered after we took possession of it that it was even better than we thought!

So let me back up.  We decided we were wanting to take trips again and with Gracie moteling it is a pain, not to mention we aren't that fond of them either.  We wanted something about 23 feet with NO slideouts.  We wanted the bathroom, a sofa in addition to the dinette AND a walk around queen bed.

No slideouts because of weight, they are colder and we always experienced leaking issues with ours.  We wanted a sofa for comfort on longer outings.  We wanted a walk around bed because we were not interested in climbing over each other to get out of the beds that are stuffed in a corner and they are more difficult to make up.  Trailer queens are also five inches shorter than residential queens beds, so Larry was wanting room at the end to hopefully put in a res. queen mattress.

The owner, on the phone, was straight up with Larry that it needed two new tires, a toilet (the pedal mechanism was broke, and as Larry had replaced the toilet in our 5th wheel, not much of an issue) and the awning had been ripped.  It is a Wilderness 25 J, which the owner said was 25 feet.  With these things we got the price down and we had us a new trailer.  The owner liked talking to Larry on the phone so much that he threw in the hitch and levelers!  The inside was clean and other than musty (not mildewy) smelling, in good shape.

We hooked up and headed to the nearest Les Swab on the way out of Vacaville.  The tire lady came out to look at the tires and asked Larry why we wanted new tires?  She said they were only four years old and as they had been covered would be fine.  Savings there!  Then while Larry was waiting for me to use the restroom before heading home, he measured the trailer "box".  The trailers outside measurement minus the hitch etc. and another score!  It is 23 feet!  Woo hoo!  Oh, AND it already had a residential queen mattress in it.  And for you used mattress freaks, it had been covered and is in like new condition. :)

It is parked in front of the house in the gravel and we've been cleaning and inspecting and Larry has been sealing.  He wants to install a couple of solar panels.  Larry ordered the toilet and we got it already and its in.  The kids were here over the weekend and now its raining so we haven't started putting stuff in it or taken a trip yet.  Soon.

I will try to get back to more regular blogging.  Busy, busy with something all the time though it seems.  All good!

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