Buying a New Home

There's no doubt we could use a bigger motorhome.  But we like our Safari Class C so much ... it has served us well for 8 years, living in it, traveling, working ... It has 135,000 miles on it, and I'm afraid it looks like it.   We're Geeks, not home maintenance people!
Whenever we go to the big rallies, we always browse thru the RVs for sale, and we never have liked one better than ours - regardless of cost.

Till Now.

Here she is ... or should I say 'He' ??  It is kinda macho looking.

It's the floor plan that grabbed us.  Three distinct living areas, and the middle one just has a standalone table in it right now ... should be an easy place to put a custom-built desk/office.  And it still has the cab over bed area where Mom can stay when she travels with us.

The plan is to take possession on Monday - 4 days from now - we'll park door to door and transfer everything over.  It's wonderful .. and I'm going to be very sad to leave our current rig.  It's also going to be tough having monthly payments ... we've been without those since we sold our house!

Details:

2007 Gulfstream Endura 'Super C' Diesel

Chevy Kodiak Chassis

Floor Plan/Model 6362

36 Foot

11,000 miles

$80,000

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Gotta Go Divin’

We’re in ‘Getting-Ready-To-Hit-The-Road’ mode now and are feeling overwhelmed with all sorts of things.  Leaving Mom is on the top of my worry list.  We’re also looking at buying a new (to us) RV … if you’re a facebook friend, you’ve been hearing about that.

Do you ever think that you’re just making work for yourself?  I look back and think ‘I haven’t accomplished anything, yet I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off, I haven’t even posted to this blog because I’ve been too busy … and I haven’t done any playing either.’  I know I’ve been overwhelmed with everything I need to do, yet I can’t tell you anything I’ve done! 

We woke up this morning to a perfectly still, sunny day – so we took a look at the Webcam for Fort Lauderdale beach:

Jim and I looked at each other.  We didn’t even need to speak ..

We gotta go divin’!

Dolphin Research Center

This was a cool day.  We really liked the Dolphin Research Center - the dolphins seemed so happy.  Most of them were born there.  It was over a week ago now.  I've taken so long  because I really wanted to include the video, not just the still photos.  And video takes a lot more effort to edit.  No, it didn't take 10 days to edit, just 10 days to get around to doing it!  In case you're interested, I used Adobe Premiere Elements 9 for the editing - I have a lot to learn before I get good at it.  Here ya go:

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Visit Key West

Key West is just 39 miles away from where we're parked  - so we had a leisurely morning at the RV, then made it down to Key West in time for just a little sightseeing, then a late lunch.



Key West, a nice town for walking.



Jim and Mom after a nice lunch on the Harbor

 Then we headed back home in time for sunset at the park. 

Colorful houses along the highway

Sunshine Key RV Resort

Checking out the pier - looks like good place to watch sunset

Yep

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To the Keys

. Time is starting to run out if we're going to take Mom on an RV trip before we leave for the summer. So .. we planned a getaway to the keys.  Although we've certainly been to the Keys many, many times - we've never gone in the RV.  Sunshine Key is a Encore park and is part of the extended family with our membership in Thousand Trails, so we thought we'd check it out.  We don't stay free like we do in Thousand Trails parks, but we get a discount.  We're paying $47/night which sounds like a lot compared to the $10-25 we normall pay for RV parks ... but it's really cheap for the keys!  $90 - 120 is the norm here!

Mom's riding spot, in the cab-over



Lots of kites flying along the way.  We *want* this one of a scuba diver - his flippers even kicked very naturally  in the wind.



The famous 7-mile bridge

You can walk under the bridge from the campground

Our site at Sunshine Key

That's Sunshine Key RV park as seen from the 7-mile bridge

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