A change is in the air

 

Here it is the 18th of March...the time has jumped forward leaving me an hour behind time. Sherri and I rolled out of bed slowly this morning. The clock on the radio across the room was not showing the time...instead it said there was no disk loaded? Oh well I knew it was time to get up so we did.

Coffee was next on the list of things to get done and I started that. Sherri slipped into the recliner. "We have a busy day ahead of us", Sherri said. She has to drive to Mesquite today to the dentist and I have to deliver some mattresses to my daughter in Wills Point. Also on my list of things to do is get the license plates for the house and pay our POB at the post office. Sherri leaves the dentist office and heads to buy groceries and a lottery ticket.

Yes we have a lot to get done before we leave for Florida today. F L O R I D A! Oh yes I forgot to mention we are leaving for Florida to day to pick up our new MH...Motorhome!! Oh did I mention that we bought a new motorhome? I guess I have been a little hush hush about our new plan. We have not said much about it because we were not real sure we were going to do this. We have been thinking about it for some time but making the final decision has taken a while.

Our new home

We wanted to be sure we would not add to our debt load to income and wanted the right offer on our trade in. When that all came together we decided to go for it. Wow we did it! Now we can worry if we did the right thing. We always have done that after every big purchase and more so as we get closer to a fixed income.

We bought an Allegro a... Tiffin product which seems to be a well built unit. We talked to Bob Tiffin at the Dallas RV show. He took time to go over the coach with us and pretty well sold us on the Tiffin quality and service after the sale. So Today we are on the way to Florida to pick up our new home...and you ask why Florida?? Well that in itself is a long story but to shorten it...they gave us the best deal of all the states and locations we talked to. Lazy Days RV just outside of Tampa is our destination. We should arrive there on Monday and pick up the new home on Tuesday. We have to switch over our belongings...the ones we are leaving in the Carriage.

I am not sure but I believe that we will stay there until Wednesday and then leave Thursday morning early. That will give us three days to get back to the lake. We do have to go back to work Monday morning so this trip will be short and sweet.

One thing good about this trade is that Sherri can help me with the driving. My legs just don't hold up under long driving distances anymore and this will be a great asset to me. Besides that if anything was to happen to me she could handle the MH better than the trailer and I would fell more comfortable with her doing that.

We will miss all the room we have in the trailer but there are good sides to the motorhome too. In the long run this will be our best option when we hit the road...

Somewhere in Time