Moving Day......

Rex and Mary, this is a blog you thought you'd never read. We are joining the RV community today, May 1st!!

One of the hospitals I work at is 58 miles away. Even though I have been there two and one half years, successfully taking night and weekend call without any problem, some jealous goody two-shoes complained that 58 miles is too far a distance to take call safely. As a creative solution, I offered to set up a "second home" in a community halfway in between to use on the nights when I am on call.

We could not find an apartment in that town, so we are putting our RV in an RV park there as a temporary solution until we find a place, probably towards winter. Yesterday, we moved our rig, just like you guys!..........

....the truck is a 2008 diesel ford owned by a friend of ours. He pulls a large construction trailer with it and scoffs at the stabilizer bars I have suggested. We moved it 30 miles without the bars in a stiff wind and it seemed to track pretty well. The bikes and all the other gear are not loaded in the trailer yet, and that may make a difference.

You will note that the large tongue weight of a "toy-box" really "squats" the truck. The axles are set way back to hold the weight of the toys and that takes the tongue weight up to about 1000 lbs...........

.......this truck is amazing. It is a new low-sulfur diesel and needs a special fuel. He got crappy mileage, around 14, for the first few thousand miles. He just got the first oil change and we got about 14 with the trailer. He thinks they tweek the computer as part of the first oil change. Also, it pulls like there is no tomorrow. We passed a Corvette convertible with two blondes in it! I was so shocked at the acceleration that I just sat there with the camera sitting in my lap and missed the shot!.........

........this shot is to show the clearance around the former tree everyone complained about for years. As you can see, once the stump is ground and the gravel placed and graded, he will not be missed (or is that "he will finally ALWAYS be missed?!"................

........Here is our new home, a rustic, out-of-the-way RV park on beautiful Clam Lake........

........crank down the awning, move the table onto the carpet, rake the grass, plant some flowers, light the fire and put our feet up, right?..........

........nice neighborhood, too. Actually, I kinda see what is going on in this run-down little cramped corner of an RV dump site. For only $1371.50 and a beautiful little RV like this one, you can have a "lakeplace" for a year, as it is on a lake. It's like $50 per month more for a slip at the marina. Pretty cheap, really, something a Rechsteiner could enjoy.......

Uncle Hans

HAPPY 87TH BIRTHDAY WILMA WILKINSON