We've Got a New Home!

We started full-time RVing nine years ago in a gorgeous 5th wheel, and just over a year later moved to a class A motorhome where we lived in Theme World RV Resort (just 5 miles north of our six-n-brix home) for two years before actually chucking it all and hitting the road. Check out our first blog post.  

Our first Live-In rig.

Our first Full-Timer motorhome.

After five years wandering and volunteering all over the U.S. and trading rigs twice, we spent two years at Kissimmee South RV Resort in Davenport, Florida while Richard went back to work driving bus for Disney World. We needed to recharge our finances and rethink our motorhome housing needs. Plus, I had some medical issued needing tended to.

Our 2005 Damon Challenger getting ready for trade-in. Equipt Cleaner did an awesome job!

We loved our Challenger and our time at Kissimmee South. Good folks surrounded us and the park is comfortable and well cared for, but we miss the road. Our dream would be to travel all over without obligations to stay and work... yeah, right! More on that real soon.... And more on the fact that we left Kissimmee South June 1st and have already made a second move... Next post, probably tomorrow.

Here we are enjoying a Community Meal at Kissimmee South

As to motorhome issues, we live with aging pets, and really always will, so a fully carpeted home with all cloth furnishings is just not practical, but redoing it all is beyond our skills and our budget. Also, my back could no longer tolerate our bed so I was sleeping on the couch, and it was lonely there, even the critters chose the bed. And finally, there was really  no room for guests. Our previous and smaller Hurricane accommodated guests better than the 2005 Challenger.

 So, we went motorhome shopping, but with a new twist. Instead of looking for something we could afford, we shopped for what we wanted at a payment we could afford, like rent. Something we have never done, payment shopping rather than price shopping. But I am soon to be 79 years old and we went for a 20-year mortgage on the motorhome of our dreams that cost us more than I could imagine! This was not a snap decision. We worked our way up to it, but it really is the best deal for us.

Using similar thinking we traded in our two small cars for a large SUV. We need something that can carry my scooter and its carrier or later a wheelchair, if needed. The Focus and the Fiesta just can't do that. So, now we are wandering (locally for now) in a 38 foot Thor Challenger. It has a separate front living room with slide-outs on each side plus phony leather seating, electric fireplace, and a huge TV we never watch, LOL 

Sliding wood and glass doors lead into the kitchen which features a residential side-by-side refrigerator, pantry, convection oven/microwave, and a neat little dining area complete with overhead TV (we don't  watch, either). 

There is a nice bathroom with glassed-in shower and linen cabinet. The large bedroom is in the rear of the coach, and the Denver mattress on a wooden platform is heaven for my back. Lots of closet space and plenty of drawer space finish off my dream motorhome. I can't say how thankful I am. There is a TV here, also, and Richard has watched it. Yippee.


I'll wait till the next post to discuss the problems this pretty-faced rig has sprung on us. But, now for the best part, the floors are all some sort of rock looking covering that looks dirty when it's clean, tee hee. No more carpets except where the slides come in over the main floor. The awnings are electric and roll themselves in when the wind blows too hard and empty themselves of excess water collecting in a hard rain. There is an outdoor TV and stereo... We've never watched this one either.

Am I a TV snob, you ask? No, I love old NCIS and other stuff on the computer, but the TV now has so many channels you can't figure out what to watch.

I love my double sink and cool faucet.

At last! Enough refrigerator space.

Nice counter tops with stove and sink covers.

The dining room, really, a dining room, LOL

Ahhhh, a bed I can sleep on and not be lonely.

Nice bath with bedroom and dining room doors.

No more carpets or fabric furnishings for pets to get dirty.

Sliding doors close off the living room where a sofa and drop-down bed sleeps guests.

Richard checking out our new home.