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Comment by Kevin F Smith on January 9, 2019 at 4:54pm

We washed the doggos in warm water today, using the outdoor shower...what a convenience!!! And then I noticed a lot of soot on the Atwood 6 gallon hot water heater, and the side of the coach. And I noticed the flame was orange and yellow with hardly any blue.

I took off the burner tube, and it was loaded with soot...and a couple of dead stink bugs! And when I say the burner tube was loaded, it was half restricted with carbon build up. The air on the slide tube was wide open as well.

I cleaned it out completely, reinstalled it, and closed off the air tube to about 1/4 open. Then I fired up the hot water, and the flame was a consistent blue...sweet! I'll keep an eye on it for soot build up, and may have to fine tune that air adjustment, but so far so good.

I also tried to troubleshoot the furnace, which was working when we bought the coach, but won't come on now. It is a Suburban furnace. I took off the outside cover, and it is clean inside and there don't seem to be any loose connections...and the fuse is still good. So it is either a control board issue, or a problem with the wall thermostat (which also controls and works with the ducted AC). I'll mess with it when we get to Arizona and until then use the ceramic heater.

And there is a slow water leak at the Franken-toilet. I'll have to take a picture of it later and post it here so you know why I call it that...lol! It looks like someone took two toilets and some spare parts, and put this one together. Anyhow, it slowly leaks from somewhere inside (fresh water), drips down the plastic base, and drips onto the linoleum. It is just a small puddle daily, but it is there, so I'll have to fix it, and more than likely replace the Franken-toilet once we get back to work.

Tomorrow I'll be shampooing the carpets, loading up the Jeep...and early Friday morning we'll be back on the road to Arizona.

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on January 8, 2019 at 8:02pm

We got everything done on the list except washing the doggos, shampooing the carpets, and loading the Jeep. We also picked up a cheap microwave at Walmart that is a perfect fit, and installed it, and a TP holder for the bathroom, since the one in the stock location is REALLY hard to reach from the throne...lol!

I also hooked up the antenna wire to the TV, and it works for over the air channels.

We decided to extend our stay until Friday, so the pups will get washed tomorrow morning, and I'll take them on a nice long walk to let them dry off. And then I'll shampoo the carpets on Thursday since we are leaving Friday morning.

Over the next two days we'll also be hanging hooks in closets to organize them a lot better, and just odds and ends to make everything easier to stow and to find when we need it.

More tomorrow!

Kev

Comment by Jimco_W001 on January 8, 2019 at 6:09pm

Wow Kevin, full timing in a RV sure can be a lot of work! I know you and your wife are having some fun in all of this.

Comment by Kevin F Smith on January 7, 2019 at 7:44pm

It took all day, but the move in is pretty much complete! Just some fine tuning to do tomorrow.

We threw a LOT of stuff away, and are giving away some more stuff, so we are running way lighter than we used to. All of our stuff is loaded, and there is still plenty of room in the under compartments...lol!

Everything that is going in the Jeep is staged at the rear of the RV and covered with a tarp.

Bright and early tomorrow, we are going to the "local" laundromat, which is about 9 miles away in Marianna, FL. While we are in Marianna, we will stop by the local DMV and drop off the license plate for the motorcycle and cancel the registration on the bike, since we sold it. We also have to pick up some sticky hooks so Patti can organize the two rear closets we decided to use for our Renfaire costumes and accessories. Patti also wants to go to Dilmore Meats, right down the road from this RV park, to stock up the freezer (they have been in business since 1971, and they have AWESOME prices on locally grown meats that they process right there!). If it is warm out and we have time after all that, I'm going to give the doggos a bath outside (using the outside shower) and shampoo the carpets in the RV with a Rug Doctor. And then we have to load the staged stuff into the Jeep, hook up the Jeep to the tow bar, set up the tow lights, etc.

More than likely, we will break these last chores up into two days, instead of trying to crush it all into one. Which means we will be leaving on Thursday instead of Wednesday.

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on January 6, 2019 at 7:57pm

I started early sorting things on the porch, and got rid of 5 trash bags full of stuff we won't need or want, and cleaned them, handing them off to Patti to put in their proper places.

When it was warm enough for Patti to take over the outside sorting/cleaning process, I ran down to Walmart and got the cables I would need to install the 24" flatscreen TV in the bedroom (coax, HDMI, etc). While she kept sorting, I installed the TV mount and got every thing set up...and none of the cable wires are working. I ended up, late in the day, running the cable for the Dish satellite receiver out the window and to the Dish tailgater on the roof of the RV, just like we used to do on the Holiday Rambler. I WILL sort out the cable issues though. I don't want wires out of windows, etc. Just not now.

We made a huge dent in the pile of stuff, although it will probably take two more days of sorting, cleaning, and throwing stuff out.

And while Patti was cooking dinner tonight, the microwave made a loud POP and died. No breakers were tripped, so the old Magic Chef microwave gave up the ghost. Poor thing...I guess it was just it's time...lol! When we get to Arizona we will replace it, hopefully with a convection oven/microwave if we can find one that is the same or similar dimensions.

Tomorrow will be more of the same...and then we will get on the road!

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on January 6, 2019 at 8:36am

Now begins the next chapter in our adventures, Florida to Arizona, 2019. We are going to be hitting the road, I-10 West, on Wednesday, traveling from Cottondale, FL to Gold Canyon, AZ, in our new-to-us 1995 Itasca Suncruiser diesel pusher. We are completely moved out of the old RV, the 1989 Holiday Rambler Imperial, and the HR was towed off to its new home yesterday. So for the next couple of days, we will be sorting through the stuff on the porch that came out of the HR, cleaning and stowing what we want to keep, and throwing a LOT of it out. We are supposed to have gorgeous weather all week long...SWEET!

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