Travel Blog

We had the day off today and got an early start because we first had plans to go to the RV dealership who's fixing our RV to see where things stood and to get some stuff out of our house, and then we were going to go to Sundance, Wyoming, to take a look at the RV we were going to rent. The first part of our day went as planned. We got to the dealership and spoke with Mitch the Service Department guy, and then packed up a load of stuff that we'd need for the rental RV. We had wanted to say hi to the salesman we had spoken to before, but he wasn't around, so we were just planning on leaving, but Phil asked if we should try one more time to find Eric, and I said what the heck, let's do it.

We found Eric and asked him if we could take another look at a new RV we had looked at the first day we brought our busted house to them. He took us over and we were sitting around the living room, and Phil asked Eric if he was sure there wasn't a deal to be made here. Eric said he thought we weren't interested in getting a new RV, and that he was sure something could be wheeled and dealed, so he went off to see on last time if his boss would give us anything for our RV towards this new one.

We waited and waited for him to come back, but he was taking a long time, and I had to go to the bathroom, so we headed back to the main office. Eric was in his office still trying to see what was what, so we told him we'd take a drive and he could call us when he had some news for us. It was still pretty early in the morning, and we weren't hungry or anything, so we decided to take a drive to Deadwood since I had wanted to go back there. We had a nice walk about town, and it was fun to see buildings and things named after the characters (ok, they were once real people) we watched on the TV show Deadwood, like Bullock's hotel, Utts Pub and the bar where Wild Bill got shot.

While we were walking around, we got a call from Eric with the magic number. We said to get the paperwork started, and we'd come right over. Well, when we got back to his office and started to sit down, he said he had "hit a snag." Uck. He said that unbeknownst to him, our insurance company had lowered the amount they were willing to pay for the repairs, and he had gone off the original number, so we were a couple of thousand short now. I was peeved and wanted to call the whole thing off, but Phil, the level-headed, asked Eric if he could somehow get us back to our magic number seeing as how we didn't want any of the furniture in the new RV, so they could keep all that, and they would also be getting some pretty cool stuff of ours in the old RV, like the fireplace and the TVs and some other great options. We also told him we'd sell his boss our scooter, which was no good to us anymore because of the specially-made frame that was on our old RV.

We had to wait another hour or so while Eric played phone tag with the owner, but it finally ended up back to where we wanted it, and now our bank is the proud owner of a new 35-foot Keystone Challenger. (I'm not fond of the name, Challenger, but I'll learn to live with it.) Come take a tour of the new digs with me:

Exterior Shots (a couple feature Phil checking out the roof):

You can't see it from the pictures, but I finally got my exterior shower. What I'm going to do with it, I'm not sure, but I wanted one anyway.

And some interior shots:

This will be my little desk area.

The bed is a King, so we had to go out and buy new sheets today.

Did you see the size of that fridge? We may have room to make ice cubes now.

We go pick it up on our next day off, which is next Thursday. We can't wait to get into our new home, even though it's sad to see the old one go, especially since it had so many personal touches. But the new one will have those soon enough, I guess.