Moving Days

New and old

We cleaned out the old motorhome; sorted, trashed, stacked, stuffed, stored. It took a full three days, and we still have to find places for many things. Many things that are in places, will need to be repacked in suitable containers once we figure out what those are. The space in the new house is about the same as the old one, but the shapes are different. We have much more storage up high, and not so much underneath.

The last thing to come over from the old motorhome was our 18 year old cat Moonie. Consuelo tossed her in the kitchen sink and gave her a bath in the old home, then brought her over to snoop around in the new home. She's drying pretty quickly in the dry Arizona air.

The big slideout

We're enjoying discovering how to live in the expanded space, and how things work (or don't). Many years ago, we relaxed on a sofa together with Consuelo leaning on me as we watched TV. We can do that again. I can put my feet up on a coffee table and relax, exactly what I'm doing as I write this.

On Sunday, one of the dealer's people came out and drove our old coach away. There was a bit of sadness as we saw our faithful home disappear for the last time.

Monday was the final packing. I had a pile of things like hoses and pipes that needed bins that would fit in the one compartment designated for them, so I picked up a couple from Walmart. And I got the satellite receiver stuffed in the tight compartment up front and connected it to the external dish through the Alfa's built in wiring. The Kingdome still needs to be changed to Dish network, so we can't use it yet.

Max leaving us

The satellite dish is the overflow, and won't fit into storage. For the moment, we'll haul it in the back of our car. I'm hoping that there will be enough room for it below when we take the solar panels out and mount them on the roof.

Today, Tuesday, we will drive to the dealer to see if they'll fix a few nits, like missing catches on some of the drawers. Then we'll head to Apache Junction for most of March.