A Boat and A Jeep (05-23-15)

The first order of business when we got back to Havasu was to get the camper emptied and ready to store.


At the resort where we are staying, we are only allowed to have it on our site for 48 hours at a time, while we load it or unload it.  Once it was emptied, we took it to our lot and dropped it way in the back, so hopefully it won’t be in the way. 

It wasn’t long before we were peeking under the shrink wrap of the boat, to check it out.

Paul was amazed that it was still in pretty good condition, and he quickly dug in, removing the shrink wrap and making a list of what needs to get done to it.

Of course it will need wax, and the trailer needs some parts replaced- oh, and yeah, it needs a new battery.













Well, the waxing isn’t finished, and the trailer still need parts, but 2 days later, the new battery is in, and the boat has been fired up.  It sounds good, and Paul has declared it ready to test on the water.  The only thing is…..it’s Memorial Day weekend, and we aren’t sure we want to hit the water at the same time as thousands of others do.





In the meantime though, we had a Jeep to test drive!  And how does one test drive a  Jeep?

By finding a steep, rocky, rough trail to take it on, of course!

This was so steep, Paul had to get out to make sure there was actually a trail off the side of this cliff.  There was. We were impressed, and the salesman said that this particular trail has sold many a Jeep for him.













Back at the dealership it was time to check under the hood.  Well, Paul did check under the hood of course, but he also had them lift the Jeep so he could check the undercarriage.












After a stressful day of giving it a thorough going over, price negotiations began.  It took a while, but eventually, the Jeep became ours!

House Update

While we were in Michigan we spoke to our builder and he said we are about a week behind, because one of the engineers took longer than usual figuring out the trusses.  So, the plans have been submitted to the city for approval, and we haven’t heard of any glitches, but it will probably be another week or so before we can start building.

Meanwhile, Paul and I have been making good use of the casita that sits on our RV lot.  It is completely empty so it makes a great storage room!  Not only are we keeping a bunch of our stuff in there  (and our last Costco run netted us a lot more bulky items than usual) but we are buying some of our appliances already.  Not the big ones (yet) but we found a great sale on the cook top we want, and also the convection/microwave, so we have ordered them to be delivered to us.