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Happy Holidays!!!
Life is a changing for us. It is both exciting and scary as hell.
As of Friday, we picked up an RV. A 2002 Holiday Rambler Admiral, that we’ve named Ackbar. To learn more about it, check out our travel blog : http://WhereTheHellAreWe.com This is travel only, no politics and personal stuff…..yes, I do know that I go on sometimes….lol
Long story short, we are going to become full time RVers by the end of Feb, when our lease is up. We are both so looking forward to it and scared. There is so much to learn, it is so big…….it is overwhelming. Once we learn it, I know we’ll be fine…..it is just getting to that point.
Ideally, we want to boondocks a lot and find places to volunteer at for hook ups and learning. We already have our 1st volunteer place at Patagonia-Sonoita Creek in AZ Apr 22 for at least 3 months.
Due to packing stuff for storage, getting rid of stuff, time involved (takes me about 6hrs to put up) and you can’t put an rv under a tree, I didn’t get one this year. Right now, I’m really missing it…..being trying to avoid a lot of holiday stuff that I usually go nuts on, the holiday lights, haven’t even listened to the holiday music that I love…..since I knew that wouldn’t help. But I may listen to the music tomorrow…..and get one day of it.
I have such happy holiday memories from growing up, I love shiny glittery things, always felt like magic. And in the process, really missing my family. This year it feels like the holidays, but doesn’t.
I did get a text from mom, dad was asking if we had an Applebees, I’m like I’d prefer Olive Garden….told them they didn’t even need to go anywhere to get the certificate or mail it…..send it by email. Love that option.
I don’t expect things from my folks anymore, my concern is their finical well being especially since they are raising their 3 grandkids. So I’m just happy with card to know that they are thinking of me. They did send us a ecertificate, which we’ll put to good use on my birthday, I was just happy to hear from them since I’m missing them right now.
I’ll be calling tomorrow, that is for sure. Dad use to call on my bday at the time I was born….but that is way too early on the west coast….grin I love my folks…even though we drive each other nuts…lol
Next year, I may not have my big 7ft fresh cut Oregon tree, but I do plan on having something. This was the 1st year I’ve been without something, not doing that again next year. I picked out cats, personal and old ornaments from when I was a kid, put them into a small shoe box and taking that with us. The only thing that I’d really be missing from it, is my German tree topper….which I love, but need a big tree for that. =)
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The main slide out is 11’8″ long and 33″ wide. We have used a “T” desk for the past 8 years. I am on the left side, Pauline on the right, we have a small HD TV between us and we have spent more time here, then anywhere else in the house. It just works for us. One of the main things we wanted was to keep from our current life was the office setup, and the Admiral is perfect to do this.
We had the dinette and the couch, as well as the recliner behind the co pilots chair, removed and the carpet ripped up from the slide out and both tv’s removed. (2002 TVs)
At this time it is just a empty space. We hope by the end of February it will have a desk, cabinets and tv and bamboo flooring.
The pro’s of doing this is being completely comfortable. The con if anyone was to travel with us, we will have to drive the Jeep with the extra people since we now only have 2 seat belts. No biggie.
The recliner was removed for a cat tree. And since the cockpit TV cabinet is no longer needed for a tv, we will remove that and move the smaller cabinet, that is currently above where the recliner use to be, into that space. Now the cat’s will have their own spot with a window and we do not lose any storage space and if I do it right, we will gain a few square feet more of storage. We are also going to put in a cat door on the right side of the bottom step leading into a outside cargo space for the kitty litter.
2002 Holiday Rambler Admiral “Ackbar”
2002 Holiday Rambler Admiral “Ackbar”
2002 Holiday Rambler Admiral “Ackbar”
OH! A place the cat’s will take over!
We will be changing out the facet at some point.
As well as removing the mirror. And the fridge “wood paneling”.
We are going to do something with the sink and fact and maybe the john itself.
I do not have much head room at 6’2″.
As you can see our Death Ray is solar powered.
We had the dinette and couch removed, as well as the carpet on top of the slide out. We hope to figure out how to put in a desk and bamboo floors.
Yep. We removed this piece of art.
And we also had this chair removed for a future cat tree.
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