As if we hadn't had enough...

After arriving home from our almost 2,200 mile trip home in much less time than we liked, we had to hop in the car and make a 740 mile round trip to New Orleans for work. It was difficult, but it was part of the plan we knew we had to complete.

After leaving New Orleans, on the way back through east Houston, we stopped at an RV shop that has sold me a lot of gear for all of our various campers we have owned. We couldn't help picking up just a few things.

Saturday morning we decided to do some additional work on the new coach. To begin, we needed to transfer all of our gear from our fifth wheel camper into the basement storage and cabinets of the Dolphin. Turns out, this was actually very similar to moving. What I expected to be a 15 minute exercise turned into a 2 hour fiasco and a whole lot of garbage. We did manage to get just about everything out of the 5'er and get it ready to be put on the market. Not the best time to try and sell a camper, but it needs to go. That one will be missed.

All of the new goodies we had purchased still needed to be put on the new coach. CeeJay and I decided it was boring doing things in storage, and it would be easy to just start up the coach and head to a campground. We chose Huntsville State Park. We are all about saving money right now, and the $12 to stay the night was cheaper than just about anything else we could do. The gas tank on the Dolphin was already full, so all we had to do was get there.

We went to the house, the real one, and got some clothes to take with us, and headed for the woods.

They had 4 spots to choose from, and none of them had electricity. As it turns out, the one we chose had nothing. Not even water. Fortunately for us, I had about 100' of water hose, so I was able to run water from the campsite next door. Once we were set up, CeeJay put away all of the dishes and food and other items pilfered from the fifth wheel and I started working on the outside of our house on wheels. I swapped out the four belt line running lights (two yellow, two red) for LED replacement units. These were not cheap, thus the reason I only bought four at this point. I'll replace more on each trip we take. Not only are they brighter and cleaner looking, they are much more energy efficient. The less battery drain, the better off we are.

The biggest change we made to the coach was a wash. It was filthy. It still is, but just not as much of it... We were able to get all of the storage compartments cleaned. They had to be scrubbed with Simple Green and lot of elbow grease. I am actually still a little sore. We cleaned the wheels and as much of the back as I could reach from the ground, which is not a lot.

Just cleaning the storage compartments made a tremendous difference in the look of the coach. The wheels, front end, bumpers, headlights and windshield were just a little icing. I guess we'll do the rest on the next trip, but we'll need a ladder for sure. That thing is large.