Our Maiden Voyage

What can I say about our first time out with the Motorhome.   Lots…lol.

We still have a lot to learn, but we are getting there. We have camped in a tent for 20 years at least, and can tell you the number of people that have come over and talked to us on one hand. (Nothing against tent campers, we were them) This weekend, we had a couple in a group, run down the road to us while we were backing into a spot and ask if we would like a lake front spot...well of course. They moved their cars and made room for us, helped us into the spot, then had us join them floating in the lake for drinks. We found out we know some of the same people...then on the other side they came over introduced themselves to us, asked us over for a drink and said to come over with any and all questions we had. Holy Moly, how nice.  and all. 

Each time we pushed a button, and something worked it was all thumbs up and high fives.  Ok so maybe the water is still a problem, but we are almost sure it is the operators and not the MH.   We are still only boondocking, so we just need to get all our systems worked out.  We will be putting in a new toilet and flooring in the bathroom, but I think that will be it for this year.    Next year perhaps a new air conditioner in the front.   Although it was so cool at night this trip that we snuggled into our comfy bed and listened to the wind crashing the waves against the shore, and the rain hitting the top of the MH and windows….lovely.   Even better yet, no leaks that we could find.

We will now talk about the radio, the multi CD changer, the fact that I cannot play CDs on our portable because of the vibrations while travelling.   That I had to walk to the back of the MH while on the road and get some tin foil…went old school on the portable radio and boosted the antenna with that…worked.     Our Radio is an old one, has a cassette player, and we are thinking the antenna is just tired on the roof.   The CD player works like a drive in speaker, you have to tune your radio to a certain station, we again come back to the fact that the radio installed in the MH sucks.  No problem the portable takes USB sticks.   I have to have my music.    

With all the above we had a great time, we set up our chairs had a drink and did none of the work or the complete shake down of stuff that we had planned.    We love it.

We leave again for 2 weeks with our grandchildren in one weeks time.   It cannot come soon enough for Bob and I.

Stay tuned for our adventures with 2 boys and boondocking again.