APRIL 10, WEDNESDAY; TAKING POSSESSION OF OUR NEW
HOME!
What
a busy day! We loaded up for the last
time with our “Bear” and drove our “Beast” for the last time to Palm Desert,
McMahon RV. When we arrived, we had to
wait until we signed the papers before we could start unloading/loading. That took over an hour. Audrey, Louise and Dave arrived to give us a
hand and went for lunch while waiting.
Unfortunately they hadn’t fixed the loading platform ( when Val sits in
her seat, she pushes a button and a platform comes out, covers the step and
provides her with a “floor” at her feet) so they spent over two hours fixing
that. In the meantime, we had to do a “familiarization
tour” and finally we began our turn over.
The 5 of us worked until 4 PM and finally saw the last load come out of
Bear and into the Motorhome. We are all
sweating from the heat and hard work.
Thank God these guys were here because we would still be at it, well
into the evening. Dave had to load some
stuff into his truck and we will take it to our storage tomorrow. There just isn’t as much storage in the MH as
there was in the Fifth-Wheel. We
continued putting stuff away and finally decided to go for dinner and since we
don’t have a tow vehicle anymore, we took the motorhome and went to a nearby
mall, had dinner then drove to Thousand Trails Campground past McMahon to spent
the night, courtesy of McMahon RV. We
worked some more then called it quit for the night. It is warm outside and I found out that the
A/C doesn’t work on 30 amps!??? The
cupboards are full, the closets are full, the lockers are full and we still
numerous boxes sitting on the floor. Oh
well, soon it will all be sorted out!I made the mistake of parking too close to the highway so I was awake at 5 AM because of the road noise and the trains going by. We had a light breakfast then headed back to McMahon RV to get a couple things fixed that we noted overnight. Our driver and his companion showed up and at 10:15 AM we were on our way to Ehrenberg, Arizona. I say our drivers because it is the law here that someone MUST drive the rig out of State (Tax Law) as we are not paying any California taxes. We stopped at “LOVE” truck stop and filled up compliments of McMahon! Our driver really liked the rig and it rode very smoothly all the way. In Arizona, we went to Flying J where we met a Notary and signed forms with our signature to meet Law requirement again. We had lunch there, said goodbye to everyone and filled up the rig before leaving ($50, worth to refill the tank). We drove to the weight scale down I-10, bought a 30 day permit to allow us to drive our Unit back home, cost $15. We then drove back to Desert Hot Springs to Catalina Resort for the night and arrived at 4 PM. The gang, including Marcel who arrived by plane yesterday, was sitting outside by Audrey and Marcel’s rig. We parked beside them and once the slides were out and level, everyone paraded through to have a look. It was good to see Marcel again. We chatted for a while then Marcel, Audrey, Tom and Ellen went to “TILTED KILT PUB” in Palm Desert while Dave, Louise and us first drove to our storage to drop off stuff that we can’t take back with us due to space in the rig then we went to meet the rest of the crew at the pub. We had a wonderful time and dinner, the waitresses were great and Marcel performed at its best. The beer helped loosening everyone. We all came back to Catalina and had more to drink. I finally called it quit as I couldn’t keep my eyes open and I went to bed while everyone else kept going. This was a fulfilling day!
We drove for a total of 235 miles in 6 hrs, including our stop in Arizona & fuel and travelled at an average 60 MPH.
N 33* 54.773’
W 116* 26.248’
ALT: 973 feet
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