Interior Decorating (01-30-13)

A lot of people who live in motorhomes or 5th wheels put a lot of thought and effort into decorating it.  I don’t.  Of course, that’s not totally true but I figure that the trailer came “decorated” and I feel no need to replace the curtains, add wallpaper or do any other heavy duty decorating, so for the first year, we made very few changes or additions. Now that we’ve had the trailer a while, we have started to do more to make it “ours”.  When we had the Sticks and Bricks, our tastes leaned towards “Caribbeanesque”, from the wicker kitchen furniture to the framed charts in the family room.  I guess we are headed in that same direction now that we have started to personalize the trailer more. 


Our first decoration was put up soon after we bought the trailer and was one we brought from the house. It’s a pretty good symbol of our preferred lifestyle.

Fast forward a year, and we found this gem when we were hunting through our storage unit for something.  It’s not really in keeping with our Margaritaville theme, but the clock is a hubcap from a Thunderbird and was given to Paul by co-workers when he moved from MA to MI, so it has a lot of sentimental value.

We also found this guy in storage, and finally got him up on the wall.

I think part of our decorating frenzy is due to us being here in the Florida Keys, where the lifestyle fits us so well.  We found this the other day, and it’s already up on the wall.

Of course, we don’t too much wall space anyway, so we have to make sure that everything that goes on the wall matters to us.

I also finally finished a project that I had been working on, on and off, for about 7 years- my latest cross stitch project.

It’s a little big, but we did put it in the bathroom ( I originally bought it to hang in our bathroom in the house).  It feels good to have it finished, framed, and on the wall!

Other than that, we haven’t been too busy.   This is as close as we have gotten to putting the  boat in the water.  We have promised each other that we will make the supreme effort of actually putting it in the water tomorrow.  The wind hasn’t died down much, but if we don’t go out too far, it shouldn’t effect us.

While we were in Key Largo, someone told us about Key Largo Fisheries, where the fish you buy is fresh off the boats.  We bought stone crab for Paul and fresh Mahi for us for dinner.  It was SO good, we did the same thing we did in Flagstaff when we found the best Mexican food we’d ever had.  Instead of experimenting further, we went to the same place the next day.  We are enjoying taking advantage of all the terrific fresh fish down here.

With no hiking available, we’ve been trying to bike as much as possible, and since we have a decent pool here, I’ve been taking advantage of that.  They also have a daily aqua aerobics class, but I haven’t been motivated enough to join in.