SETTLING IN & RE-ORGANIZING…..

As I mentioned in my last blog that we traded our motorhome and little red car in for a truck and a travel trailer.  We spent the first week just moving all of our belongings from one to the other.

Even though we got everything moved into our new home, we still managed to keep moving things around.  We put things in one area and give it a try for a day or two, then decide-nope it just isn’t in the right spot-yet.  So time to re-organize it to fit our needs.

For instance, the pantry and dish cupboard just wasn’t right and we had to re-organized.  Of course the clothing area had to be re-organized to suit us as well.  Then there is the big closet which needed some re-organizing and some plastic organizer bins added in the mix of things. 

Now Brian has this one big huge basement and that too had to be re-organize to suit him just right.  He came to the conclusion he needed several crates to put things in-to make it easier for him to get at.

Through all this re-organizing, we also have to make a list of things we must buy to make our  new home comfy.  We have decided that carrying 3 7-gallon jugs just of drinking water and another 3 7-gallon jugs for filtering into our water tank was getting to heavy for Brian to keep carrying.  So gone are the huge 7 gallon tanks in it’s placement are single one gallon jugs of drinking water that are kept under the bench seat.  It’s also easier on me-for I was starting to have a hard time turning the nozzles on those 7 gallon jugs.  So how do we now get water back into our tank without having to move our little home every time?  easy!  a water bladder!  Works great and so far we love it!  here is what it looks like filled with water:

Weighs 385 lbs. when filled and only 5 lbs. empty and stores so easy under the seat of the truck or in the compartment without taking up so much space as the 7-gallon jugs did!

Every time we go shopping, we pick up little things that we see that would work for us.  With the big RV show in town we thought for sure we could knock a lot of stuff off our list-little by little the list is getting smaller.

As most of you know-sleeping very long on an RV mattress just don’t cut it.  In just the two weeks of having our new home-the mattress that we have now is already showing indentation of where we sleep-so that must go and now in search for a new one. 

Again at the RV show they had a demo of the new Euro Foam Denver Mattress and now we awaited for the arrival of our new mattress. We were a bit skeptical or our new mattress-for it came in a 16” X16” X 75”box.  you can’t help but wonder how a mattress is going to feel after being compressed that long…here is what it looked like:

The Mattress rolled up….

Brian cutting the plastic away….

…and wholla!  A new mattress!!!  Of course Leah has to be the first to check it out!!!

We no longer have the luxury of the Onan generator at our fingertip anymore.  Personally that won’t be missed to much anyways.  You see, just before we left Fernley RV in NV; Brian had bought a 1000 watt Generator.  Reason was it’s a lot quieter than the Onan (the Onan was placed directly under our bed in the motorhome and was NOT micro quiet as claimed to be!).  We really didn’t need that big of a generator to begin with.  Only time we ever used it was to charge things on cloudy days or to watch TV at night-so the 1000 watt will still do the job just fine for us.

Now that we are settled in, it’s time to figure some of the components in the truck and even in the travel trailer.  We discovered in the truck that it gives us an update on oil usage and will tell us when it’s time to change oil!  How cool is that feature?  We have our cell phone synched with the truck so when we are driving down the road-we both can talk through the speakers in the truck-hands free! 

Having to go with a 1/2 ton truck we couldn’t get the echo-boost engine-they simply won’t pull a travel trailer.  Fuel will be more than what we are used to with the Chevy Tracker, but better than what we got  with the motorhome.  The good thing is, it will run on bio-fuel; which means e-85,86, 87 or 89, to make it more affordable for us.  We just have to make sure if changing fuel grade, we have to have at least less than a half tank of fuel remaining. 

As I stated on Facebook: I think the truck is smarter than a 5th grader or at least smarter than us!!!! Going to have fun figuring out this…..