Home With Our NEW Home

It's Monday night and we have our new home back in Winnipeg.

It was quite the adventure. We were supposed to get away on Friday, which was delayed to Monday and ended up being late afternoon Tuesday. That didn't change the fact we had to be in Indiana on Thursday morning. It was a long hard drive in a new (to us) heavy duty truck. All in all it went very well but driving through downtown Chicago at 10:30 pm at about 70 MPH, on freeways under construction, is an experience I will never forget and will certainly NEVER duplicate. We got to Indiana a couple of hours late for our appointment but it still went very well.

If you are ever in the market for an RV let me recommend Earl and the team at The Outpost RV in Middlebury Indiana. I have had some experience with RV dealerships and I can safely say I have never seen service like we got from them. We had a wiring issue with our truck which could have, and probably should have, cost us a bunch of money. The owner of the dealership, Jim Wilson, came out to the truck and spent two hours reworking our wiring to get us going. When I asked him for the bill he said "no, send us a referral if you can." The sales team, the business manager, the service man, everyone was just first class. They even have three full service spots on their lot that buyers are encouraged to use for a day or two, or more, at no charge. They want to be sure everything is working right before you leave. I guess you can tell we were very impressed.

We took this first picture on their lot, where we stayed for two days and nights.

The Amish are huge in that area and we really enjoyed sitting in our rv hearing the horses clop clop as they went by. we drove a few miles of back roads around there which was huge fun. The Amish farms are pristine. Imagine a city lot landscaped to the extreme and then transfer it to a farmyard, with manicured lawns and gardens, painted barns, beautiful horses and clean clean clean. We hope to go back when we have more time and we can site see in something a tad smaller than our Freightliner.

We headed for home on Sat morning about 9 and were home Monday night at 9ish.

Thankfully it was fairly uneventful. Had a bit of trouble with the braking system that I was able to deal with and then we dropped the electric plug from the trailer to the truck. We pulled into a rest stop and bumped into a trucker who pointed it out to us. I took one look and went "we're toast." He said "no you ain't, I got all you need to fix it." He spent the next hour working with me fixing it up and getting us going again. A really neat guy, a Vietnam veteran who has been driving ever since, 37 years on the road. I tried to pay him and he refused, I tried to pay for his supplies and so forth and he said, "you can pay me by keeping this pretty lady safe, and helping out the next traveller you see in trouble." Just a really nice man who has some stories to tell but all he would say was that he was special ops in Vietnam and did some things he regrets.

We stayed at a couple of neat campgrounds on the way home. The first one "Boone County Fairgrounds" in Belvidere Wisconsin, had a horse show going on so we got to see some amazing animals and riders. The second night was at a place way off in the middle of nowhere Minnesota, where we found a neat spot with that challenged our driving skills getting up and down into it. Nice spot and very clean.

So now we're home and packing the rv. I had to spend the night on the Wall Mart lot last night because I couldn't get the rv on our lot at the condo. This morning I got it over here and we're packing it up. 6 days and we're officially homeless, "full time rv'ers."

Have to go and do some packing, thanks for reading our blog.