Maintenance Focus

Late April The maintenance needs for “RV Where Yet” are coming into focus.  Basically, everything works.  So we are mainly making decisions about pre-emptive (proactive) maintenance vs. fixing things that break when they break.  Helping us to make these decisions…

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Storage?

22 April Spent some considerable effort looking for storage in the Chicagoland area.  It is ILLEGAL to park such a vehicle in a residential neighborhood,  even if one were fortunate enough to find a space (well,  actually,  4 contiguous spaces!).…

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Quality Time Spent…

17 April We spent some quality time with “RV Where Yet” and the mechanic yesterday.  One of the treats of the day was to START THE ENGINE .  I don’t want to say it “purred” because diesel bus engines don’t…

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Naming Contest

16 April — Naming Contest! The RV came to us named: “Charlie’s Angel.”  This presented us with a dilemma.  EITHER I could change my name to “Charlie” or the Bus needs a new name.    Actually,  THAT decision was simple.…

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Our First Visit

8 April .. Our first visit to “the Bus.” This was an EXCELLENT DAY on the RV front.   We  drove down to St. Louis to take a look at  the offered RV.   Many thanks to brother-in-law Paul Kokkin for coming…

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Our new Home!?

We may have shared with some of you that we intend our first “destination” to be an RV trip around the USA and Canada.  Well,   upon hearing that plan, a client “threatened” to give us their RV.  The cost:  $1. …

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