Passing Days

When you are on a long-term vacation days may go into a blur. While we always have something or else to do, it is not always I take pictures of things I do. And there are days we don't remember what day in the week it is. But I guess, it's a perfect sign to blocking out a lot of daily concerns.

F.ex. the other day, when we had a cooling breeze, I put two more mounting rails on the roof. So now, I have covered one side of the rig with it. I also went to Lowes in El Centro og purchased the angle irons needed to actually mount the solar panels with. I cut the 8ft long irons down to handy 2ft. lengths. Unfortunately, Lowes was no better than Home Depot, as I could not find enough of the strut nuts and bolts. 

So when I got home I went online and to my surprise, I found both nuts and bolts at a much, much lower price than what the stores here in town are charging. I expect them to arrive on Thanksgiving day, though I won't be able to pick them up tomorrow.

I have also added a 4th solar panel to the temporary setup.

But we still need to run the generator for a few hours in the evenings.

It is now a month ago that we took over this motorhome in Colorado.

The time has been used for various repairs and fixings, one of them being replacing the main door lock. So far we had to use the dead bolt to lock the door. It wasn't very satisfactory, so I had ordered a new door lock. It's a lot of work with taking out a lot of screws to get behind the door panel, but eventually I got it done and it works perfectly!

The day after we arrived in Trinidad,CO we went to a propane place and got the tank filled.

Today, after one month, we took the rig to an RV-park in El Centro for propane. We were greatly surprised when we learned that we had only used 18.5gal of propane for the whole month. That is quite a bit lower than what we would have used with our trailer. The much better insulation of this rig along with using a residential AC fridge might account for the low use of propane.

As the propane tank takes 38gal. we won't go for more propane any sooner than 6 weeks from now.

While I have been puttering around outside with any number of projects, Bea has been keeping a good eye on issues inside the coach. CLEANING has been a major part of her work. Some times you might find a rig being super clean when you purchase it, but I guess most times its cleanlyness is not what you want for yourself. 

But we are far from letting work projects take away the fun of enjoying this motorhome. So we have time for meeting friends, taking doggy walks and simply hanging out around the rig. Weather is fantastic with warm days and cool nights. It is great that desert nights are cooling off so we can sleep. Evenings we read or are watching a movie on the TV or Internet.

"Rosy" the pink elephant is always with us on tour

                                                  A little Christmas out front