Good grief……I’m so poky this little guy could give me driving lessons!! I know I promised to tell you all how the Bounder worked out on it’s ‘maiden voyage…so here goes…FINALLY!
It worked out splendidly! And I can’t tell you how grateful I am that our ‘impulse buy’ didn’t turn out to be a disaster!
Of course we had been ‘thinking’ about getting a larger motorhome but spotting this one in a Walmart parking lot and buying it was a bit ‘out of the blue!’ Ladies…beware of husbands that say “Honey let’s just stop and ‘take a look’!” (grin) Of course it ‘was’ exactly what we had been talking about getting. AND it was such a great deal…
As much as we loved the Lazy Daze, the Bounder gives us so much more SPACE!! Rick and I have completely different sleeping patterns… I’m an owl and he’s a lark! Now I can stay up as late as I want and play…while he sleeps away in the bedroom. And I can ‘slug a bed’ in the mornings while he fixes breakfast and putters around in the kitchen. We’ve always ‘accommodated’ each other but now we don’t have to…and it’s nice. And we have more storage space for the little luxuries! It’s amazing how that vacuum fills!
We did worry the extra length would be a problem. So far it’s turned out not to be. There was one time in a service station where I had to get out and watch Rick pull out and around the pumps…a really tight squeeze! We learned our lesson, now we get gas where we can see an easy ‘in and out’ and never wait until we really NEED gas.
Finding park accommodations for our 36 feet hasn’t been difficult as we feared. This fall we may go back east again and that might be a different story!
We still run across people who wonder out loud ‘How can you live in such tight quarters? Don’t you miss your ‘home’?” We just smile because this IS our home. We have our cozy beds, and easy chairs and favorite pots and pans under the sink. The old familiar clothes are hanging in our closet. Our hobby stuff is in the drawers. We’ve decorated with favorite belongings and pictures of loved ones.
But, as nice as all that is…the most important thing…the ‘magic’ of RVing is the constant change from seashore to deep forests to desert sunsets…our wonderful, ‘ever changing’, fascinating backyard!
The joy IS in the journey…
And speaking of journeys…we should be out of here in a week or two!