It’s time to spruce up the RV for next year’s odyssey. We’ve got some things to repair, to improve, and to replace…as usual. It’s always a longer list than I would like, but we are slowly getting the troop transport into the condition that we want. As they say, “What’s money for, anyway?”
As I noted in a previous blog, The Skipper tried to fit our ten-foot wide RV into a 9-1/2 foot hole up in the Santa Cruz redwoods. The trees won, and the rig suffered a 15-feet long scrap along the kitchen/patio side. The bad news: about $10K in damage! The good news: Allstate will pay about $9,500 of that amount. Hooray for insurance!!!
That work will be done in February; we’re in the body shop queue at Temecula Valley RV.
Tomorrow, we will be taking the coach in for a variety of fixes and improvements. Included in that will be: a new concave mirror; fixing headlamps (fuse?); cosmetic repairs in the rig; audio-visual system enhancement; repair/replace bedroom A/C unit (it squeeks!); and, the big expense, re-upholster the small sofa and the two swivel seats in the driver compartment.
We are also having a private contractor replace all of the day/night window shades with easy-to-operate roll-up blinds.
So, yes, we are spending a bunch this year on making the rig our little paradise. A lot of what we’re fixing/replacing is now 13 years old; the stuff only lasts so long.
We want to get our second home just right, because, particularly this year, we may be spending a lot of time in it. Who knows?
RV’ing…it’s an expensive luxury, for sure. But, we enjoy it, and should be having more fun now, since Charlie is handing off more and more of her business to our son, Jonathan.
Perhaps my wife can actually enjoy the upcoming 2018 Road Trip?