As I am writing this, we have been in our new home exactly one week. All in all, the settling in part has not been as bad as I expected it to be. After days and weeks and months of frustration and setbacks, the moving in part has been relatively uneventful.
We have a couple of major hiccups hovering on the horizon. Because, it wouldn't be our life if we didn't. The first is we need a truck...YESTERDAY!
We could not register for a spot in this delightful cement parking lot of a trailer park until after we had purchased our trailer. We had discovered that we have to move the beast every THREE weeks just a couple of week before we bought it. We figured that we could rent a truck to move it until we could afford to buy an old used one ourselves.
Well, yip deedee, It turns out that after you pay for a spot in this place, it states in there rules that you must OWN a vehicle capable of moving said trailer in order for trailer to be in RV park!!! What are we supposed to do now. The trailer has been paid for, and there is NO PLACE ELSE to park it.
Trust me, I have been searching for months. A cement parking lot with no amenities at all, with a premium price tag is not my idea of where I want to be. But this is the East Bay and it is all there is.
So, unless husband does an hour and a half commute, this is it!
And, because we had the choice of homeless or money-less, we spent every last cent we had to buy trailer ahead of schedule. We have been living on fumes the past ten days. We could have left this thing park for twenty one days if we could have rented twenty one days at one time. This beast has to be moved for the first time in two days.
This trailer full of newbies has no idea how to do that. The missing truck is an issue, but so is the 36 foot behemoth. Seriously, why isn't there a test or something that they make you pass before they just take your money and say, "Here, have a trailer. You're on your own now. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
And, just to prove how much we really truly should not be trusted in the would of RVers! Four days in, yes four days! The husband was looking at the sewer valve and stated, "That valve is open!" We had to wait until we had enough money to buy sewer everything, so we did not hook up to campground system when we first arrived.
The only thing holding everything in is the sewer cap!
All three sewer valves were open! Both gray tanks and the BLACK tank! So much for the training at the PDI session. Seriously, why isn't there a test? There is no way were would have passed. If there is a level before newbie, we are the level before that.
I will definitely be videoing that sweet adventure.
Here is a short video of our first morning. We didn't get moved in until late the night before, so there are boxes and stuff everywhere.
And then, about twenty four hours later.
It is the beginning of our adventure.
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