Saturday, June 8, 2013

Our New Rolling Home

Here's our new (not new but new to us) rolling home. It has two slide outs so when we're parked there's more room than previous motorhomes we've had. You might think 'what a gas guzzler' which it is. But since we sold our home we aren't paying house expenses while we're traveling. Also compared to the cost of motels and restaurants it's much less expensive traveling in an RV on such a long trip.We can also take our three cats with us so they don't have to be boarded which would also be expensive.

This is a wide angle shot so the rig looks much longer and wider than it actually is. Although the dinette and couch are in a slide out so the space is roomier when they're out. Kitchen on the right and dinette and couch on the left.  The kitchen has a sink, stove with oven, microwave convection and a refrigerator with freezer. Driver and passenger seats in the front.

Here's the bathroom with the shower on the left. We have heat and air conditioning and there's also a generator. If we want to stop long the road and use any of the appliances we can use the generator. Lots of RVers stop at schools, churches, hospitals or wally worlds to park for free. We are hoping to do the same and then in between stay in parks for a month at a time since the monthly rates are less expensive than the daily rates.

Here's the bedroom with a queen sized bed at the back of the coach. Below is a floor plan except the bedroom doesn't have that chair in it nor the slide out closet. Instead there's a closet along the back wall.
These images were borrowed from the net. If  you saw how cluttered we are right now you'd have a good laugh. I'm sitting at the dinette typing and my cat Butter is lying on the table behind my laptop. Butter is one of those cats with a very subtle personality. He can be sleeping and all of a sudden he'll meow right out of the blue for me to notice him. We're hoping to leave this coming Tuesday if we can get everything organized by then.

When I came home from the grocery story yesterday I saw another green frog on the bumper of my car. Gary found one in a storage compartment under the motorhome. Those little guys can squeeze in some really tight spaces. Ha. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.

17 comments:

  1. I love that the frogs are keeping you company. Your new motor home DOES look impressive. How do the cats travel? Ours, even on their short trips to the vet, whinge, complain and behave in a fashion which requires air freshener. I do hope yours are better travellers than that.

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  2. You go girl!! Looks like it's large enough to me. Where does your husband stay?


    Chris

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  3. Hi Elephant's Child, thanks, the cats stay in the back bedroom and mostly sleep, we stop every 200 miles or so, so they can stretch their legs and we can too.

    Hi Christine, thanks, my husband would just as soon live permanently in an RV as his man cave, Ha. we can't wait to leave.

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  4. Wow, your new digs really are impressive. I can feel your enthusiasm to hit the road. Here's to a great trip. (And I love Butter's name!)

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  5. It looks wonderful. This is going to be such fun!

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  6. What a wonderful home for your road trip. Much improvement over last little one. Will you tow a car so you can do small side trips? I see so many of these on the road, since I go along I-40 to Asheville whenever I go...but I guess everyone travels an interstate these days. Bon Voyage!

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  7. I could live there in a heartbeat! You two have wonderful adventures on the road. When we went travelling in the little transvan, I was always singing that: On the road again, can't wait to get on the road again...

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  8. Oh Linda, I could do that!!! It looks wonderful. I follow several full time RVrs and they spend most of their time on BLM campspaces, which are cheap..like almost nothing, but they can only spend a certain amount of days in each park. I follow their blogs, almost green with envy. Ooh the sights they see!!! Anyway, I'm excited for you guys. Too bad BF is a farmer and can't/won't go hardly anywhere :(

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  9. Looks great! I know quite a few RV'ers and it's a fun lifestyle. Bon voyage!

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  10. Wow, that looks extremely liveable! It's great the kitties can have a room to stay in so that they don't accidently escape-that would be my worry with my cats:)

    What a fun adventure you have ahead!

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  11. Thanks all must curtail my minutes on the net bench the short reply

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  12. It sounds like you have very comfortable living arrangements with your motor home. And the fact that you have your three kitties is just wonderful.

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  13. wow, that RV looks like fun. Have a great time!

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  14. compared to the little one it really is a palace, we're off tomorrow.

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  15. NICE way to travel.....and your frog friends make me giggle.

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