The RV is GONE!

These two pics are from when we went to pic up our 2010 toy-hauler at the dealership for the first time (September 2009):




These two pics are from the Thunder In The Hills Bike Rally we went to in Bandera, Texas around the end of March, 2010:

We learned the hard way, like many first time RV-ers. Our toy-hauler travel-trailer may have looked "COOL" (as in "hip") on the outside, but with no slides, it was just too darn small on the inside.

It's a really good thing that we LIKE and love each other so much, because we lived in that thing for 4 1/2 months last winter! Also, something that we had not figured on (never having been to the Gulf coast before)...we had to keep the Road King and bicycles IN the garage when not in use (which was MOST of the time), because the salt-water air would have ruined them! And because of the constant high winds, we were never able to use the awning to sit under, so we ended up living in appoximately 22' X 8' of space for those months! (the trailer was 34' long)
Whew! What an experience! Hahahaha!

I didn't mind it so much, but William absolutely hated having no elbow room whatsoever. I would just curl up in a corner of the bed (we had a 32" flatscreen TV in the bedroom), or more often, the dinette bench and get comfortable (CAN you get comfortable on those things?) with my laptop computer for hours....HAD to, because the weather was miserably cold and rainy for most of the time.

Well, William said there is no way we're going through THAT again, so, let's see if we can sell this thing, so I put it on Craigslist and "poof", it sold for what we were asking. Thank goodness! A young athletic family with two boys bought it for their dirt-biking excursions, which is perfect for them! Yay! A win, win situation!


The truck was sold too! We LOVED our Nissan Titan 4x4 truck (gas), but it's just too small to pull the new fifth-wheel that we plan to buy...a 2011 Keystone Fuzion 322...(any advice or opinions, anyone? Now is the time!).

Our new truck is a 2011 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD turbo diesel 4x4 crew-cab standard-bed in charcoal metalflake gray...and that bad boy can pull anything! We are waiting for it to be delivered any time within the next day or two. We are hoping to get many years of use out of both the new truck and the new fifth wheel, so, in the long run we figure that these purchases will actually SAVE us money. I will, of course post some pics of the new truck as soon as it's here.

I know...I have a LOT of blogging (catching up) to do!

I've been blaming my lack of blogging on the very slow Internet connection here, but it shouldn't actually have kept me from writing. The slow connection is due, I believe, to what appears to be an almost full RV park, lot's of wind and rain and cold, thus EVERYONE and their brother trying to use the Internet at the same doggone time! When it's warm and sunny, we try to get out and RIDE or hang out on the beach or do SOMETHING. I get on this computer almost every day and check my MySpace, Facebook, email, do maintenance on websites I've made for other people, read blogs I follow and by then HOURS have gone by and I'm too tired (or too lazy) to think clearly enough to write anything, SO, here I am telling you all that I'm going back about a month or so and will be posting LOTS of photos of our adventures here in Port Aransas as my slow Internet connection allows. Heck, I haven't even gone back yet to update my previous blogs...oh well, I hope that gives you all something to look forward to. By the way, I sure do enjoy reading other's blogs!
:-)

Sneak Peek of our new RV

Almost!

We've been told that our travel trailer toy hauler will be delivered any day now!
Hope everything is "just right"...but a little skeptical. We'll see. Trying to think POSITIVE!