Peppy's Dream Moving Adventure Blog

We should have stayed in the RV a few days while we were still in Whitestone. We should have taken a shower in it. We should have gone to the bathroom in it. We should have packed it long before we left. There are lots of things we should have done, but we were also selling and moving out of our house of 21 years and shipping everything we owned to San Diego. At least we should have shipped everything we owned to San Diego, because we took MUCH too much stuff into the RV. By the time we realized we were trying to fit 3 rooms of stuff into a tiny RV, our stuff was boxed and out of the house and there was really not much we could do.

So, with the help of my darling friends, Maria B. and Susan R., we stuffed everything into the compartments on top and on bottom, using every single inch of available space. We made it all fit, but now Eric and I have NO idea where some things are!  We need a few days just to take everything out, see what we’ve got, and perhaps even pare down before repacking. We just don’t need everything we brought!  I tried to bring as few clothes as possible, and as few accessories, shoes and jewelry, but it still seems like I have too much.  Eric has WAY too much clothes, partly because we packed him and then took more clothes out of the dryer and off the clothes line and brought that into the RV, too.  He just doesn’t need seven pairs of jeans!!!!  He also has all his bicycling stuff, which includes gloves, helmets, armor (for mountain biking), camelbaks (like a backpack — to hold drinking water), jerseys, pants and shorts, bicycling shoes, and a myriad of other mountain biking necessities. His bicycling stuff takes up more room than anything else!

Before we ever got on the road, Eric noticed that the radiator fluid was low.  He added a lot, and it seemed to be going down pretty fast, so he knew there was a leak somewhere in the radiator.  This was troubling, but he kept a close eye on it and added fluid whenever he felt it needed it.  Nevertheless, this was something that needed to be resolved -- and soon!

The first night we had the RV on the road, we didn’t sleep in it. We stayed at our old and dear friend Marygrace’s house, with her and her husband Bill in Massapequa.  They were kind enough to let us stay with them. After a wonderful meal of Mexican food at Don Juan Restaurant with Marygrace’s brother Michael also joining us, we slept over.  Our last night in a house!