In Virginia. Yep, you read that right. It's late January and we are in Virginia... in the cold. Yuck!
I'm sorry I have not been updating you as faithfully as I would have liked but I will briefly explain what has happened over the last few weeks and will then give you more details over the next few days.
As I've said in previous posts, our goal was to get the camper ready so that we could take it down to Florida for a while. Well, the date we were working with was Jan 5. That way we had 3 days to drive the camper to Ft. Lauderdale before we left on a 6 day cruise to the Caribbean. We had a lengthy list of goals and aspirations for the camper before we went and as we got closer to the date we were deciding which things could be done while "on the road." There were a few things we knew we had to get done before we left including the flooring, a new toilet, and a state inspection. We were able to get the Pergo installed in the camper (which my husband told me after the fact was said to be impossible by every forum he'd read). By the way, it looks SO much nicer now. Replacing the toilet was easy. But when trying to get it inspected, we found that the emergency braking system and the brake pads and shoes needed to be replaced.
Normally that would not have been a problem except we found out 1 day before we needed to leave and we had to order the parts. Not only that, but we'd been storing the camper in a building my father had been trying to rent out for over a year. Needless to say, he found a renter that wanted to move in immediately so we were forced to scramble to get everything cleared out. This made things a bit more complicated for us, but we are VERY happy that he found a renter.
We'd also been storing some old computer equipment from my husband's company that is in the process of closing. He's been intending to sell it on ebay (and he's been successful selling the things he's listed, he's just been pressed for time to sort through everything). That meant we also needed to find a place to put all of that (as well as the stuff we want to keep but not take in the camper).
Ultimately, we decided to drive to Florida (without the camper) for the cruise and an additional week to visit friends and family in Florida. We will probably be in Virginia for 2 - 3 more weeks as we work on selling the computer equipment as well as working on the camper some more. We now have time to do a few of those things that we were going to do "on the road" which probably means they will be done better too (always a good thing when thinking resale).
Now that I've caught you up on why I dropped off the face of the earth for a while, I'm going to go do some of those things you need to do when returning from vacation... laundry, grocery shopping, unpacking, and in my case school for my 1st grader.
Details and some pics of the trip will come soon (once I've gotten the pics sorted).
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