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Pre-fulltiming notes...

March, 2000

Our New Home

The last week of March was an exciting time for us -- our plans finally started coming together as we picked up our new home, a 40-foot (and then some) year 2000 Mountain Aire diesel pusher by Newmar. Here's Connie standing next to the rig, in Coachlight RV park (a nice clean park at the dealer where we picked it up):

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We drove it home to load it up with some necessities for its maiden voyage, a 2-week trip to Texas to get it registered and do some long-overdue visiting with friends.

Here's a picture of it in front of our house (notice Connie in the driver's seat, you can barely see her):

Full length view, in the street by our house:

April 15th, 2000

We're Texans!

After a 1700-mile round trip to Texas and back, we are now registered Texans. We can't say that we had a lot of fun on the trip, since it was mostly running errands, but we did relax a little (very little) and got to visit some friends in Dallas. It was fun, though, (and educational) talking to people in the campgrounds when we had a chance. Both the other RVers and the campground owners really are as friendly as everyone says.

At least we got a lot of experience (especially driving!). The small towns along 2-lane highways (who suggested those anyway???), not to mention city traffic right after school gets out, can really be nerve-racking to a first-time "bus" driver. We made it OK, though, and I'm starting to get some feeling back in my hands now. ;-)

Now the real "fun" begins -- sorting out what we are going to keep, moving it in to the rig, put the house on the market, sell everything that won't fit in the motorhome, and officially become "full-timers". We'll stick around Kansas City long enough to close on the house, then we'll probably go up to the Wyoming/Montana area for the summer, and try to attend an RV rally or two if we make it in time. Actually, anything can happen depending on when we leave and what we feel like doing (and what the weather is like!).

April-July, 2000

During this time of getting the house sold, we basically stayed in the RV at night and went to the house during the day to work on the move. It was a lot of work! Things really got hectic once we had a contract on the house -- suddently we had to prepare and have a moving sale, and basically get rid of everything that we can't take with us. Lets just say that we hope to never go through that again!

Thank you for visiting our travel site. Please visit our other sites too:

Campground Master -- A tracking program for your campground or inn. Easy to use and learn, but modern and powerful. One of the most inexpensive systems, great for small campgrounds. Designed by campground owners and full-time RVers.

MysteryPhotos -- Every week a new photo is shown, which may be a close-up of something, or a section of a common object or sight. Guess what it is and you might win a prize. Lots of fun for the whole family! Free screensaver and wallpaper too.

Awesome Screen Savers -- Cool photographic screen savers of the highest quality, for Windows PC's. Download FREE Lite versions of them all. Some are created with photos from our travels, some are awesome photos from NASA. (Contact me to have a screen saver made with your own photos!)

Cottonwood Software -- My shareware business site, currently featuring File-Ex 98: a Windows 95/98 dialog enhancement tool. Great for people who work with a lot of files.

Free -n- Cool -- Tons of Freebies, Giveaways, and Cool Sites -- all in one! You'll find a large selection of free samples you can get mailed to you, free games, screen savers, internet services, etc., plus hundreds of contests of all types, and a unique "intensely cool sites" list.