The drama continues.

Perhaps it is just me, I am a worrier.   But buying such an older Motorhome, Price being the driving force, I have lots to stress and worry over.   Have we made an error, is our retirement in ruin.   I know this is not the case, but the hint of such is in the back of my mind.   We finally got the slides to work, it was a nightmare of a day, at least 5 plus hours working on this.   We finally got the slides to move out, and thought well lets see if they come back in.   After all we were out and over our neighbours driveway.    No movement, no noise, no nothing.   Neighbour is home at 8pm…what are we going to do.   Of course it is the weekend and a long one at that, good luck finding help.   The internet to the rescue, a pc and a laptop, 4 different groups giving advice.   Sitting alone in the motorhome, as Bob drove into the city to his work to get two new batteries to see if that was the problem, I started reading the threads again.   Thought what the heck put stuff together from each thread.   So I found the hydraulic switch, turned that on, turned on the key for the front slide, turned on the engine of the motorhome.   Pushed the button nothing.   Then I thought well engine will not start if side door is open, so I reached out pulled the drivers door closed, tried again…..Yeah the slide moves in just like it is suppose to.    I mean really all that for one slide to come in.    Bob was coming down the street thinking, watch I will turn the corner after almost a two hour drive and she will have fixed it.  She being me Sally.  He turns the corner slide still out, but just as he pulled in beside the motorhome, he sees the slide come in, and me going crazy with joy in the front seat.   A long stressful day to just figure out how the slides work.   We believe the problem was door open, and Bob had put his hand on the hydraulic switch and perhaps not notice.  
That evening we bring the slide back in to pack up working on the motorhome for the day, and you guessed it the bedroom slide just sits there and looks at us.   After a few choice words and looking at each other I try again, nothing, but it is so hot in the MH by now that my finger slips and the slide moves.   Not sure why but I was hitting the button for it to come back in and you could hear the hydraulics, but when by finger slipped and it hit the button for it to go out, it came in.    My theory, this thing is playing with us, like a cat with a mouse.
The MH goes back to the mechanic on Thursday, all coils replaced, yeah all ten of them.  They are old and seems like a good plan to start out with things as maintained and up to date as we can make them.  Engine being a big thing.   At that time we are handing him two new batteries and telling him to install and fix our 12 volt system.  We are just tired.  And it looks like they are dead, even with charging, nothing.  Keeping our fingers crossed it is just batteries, or as with the slides, we have no idea what we are doing.
One day of stress and a big learning curve done, on to the next in a couple of days. Oh yeah we are about to hook up to water. Keeping our fingers crossed, please oh please let everything go smoothly.

The Beginning was a little rough

It was a long time coming, a five year plan put into motion.  A few times we had to say no to things, because the plan was a Motorhome, and retirement, or was it retirement and then Motorhome.   Retirement is not here yet, but the Motorhome is or almost is.   After finding it, and waiting and waiting for a new windshield, we drove to bring it home, June 23, 2014.   A short way up the road from the owners, Bob's first time behind the wheel, a deer tries to play chicken with him.   Thank goodness Bob won.   But was a hair raising experience watching from the van following him.   I see deer, I see break lights, I see deer jump across road in front of him...oh Yeah I was holding my breath, could this really happen 5 minutes into ownership.    About two hours later we made it home where it playfully decided not to start again in our driveway that very evening…she was just playing with us, she started again. 

We gambled on us doing the Safety and the emissions test, as the new windshield (a bird encounter) was $1900 from the States and then installation.   We thought we would leave that to the old owner.   Did we gamble well, that is yet to be seen.    It is now sitting at the third mechanics.  Being at the third mechanic is a long story and a rant.  The Motorhome failed a Safety, but we can deal with that, new wipers and a washer motor, no biggy.   But now we sit and wait because as I am sure you can guess, it failed the emissions test too.   There is of course the water damage in a couple of areas that we somehow missed when viewing...but we called and he had a reason why.   Lordy let him be an honest man.  So out of the casino we stay, gambling may turn out not to be our thing.   Do we still love “her”, you bet ya.
 
Our new baby.