We had planned to be on the road for a family reunion by now. It didn’t happen. Medical issues and other factors prevented it. Life goes on.

We stayed in Redlands CA to get some necessary preventive maintenance done and took advantage of the need for the coach to stay overnight in the work bay to take a room in Los Angeles near our LA family. we took them out for lunch and dinner and had pleasant time with all of them. On our way back we stopped in a huge shopping mall so Carol could look for a pair of shoes. It worked out, but stopping in a mammoth shopping mall at this time of year for a pair of shoes? After we got the shoes we drove (!) to the other end to see if Coach had the card case I’ve been using for many years in stock. They did have something like it – with far too many logos to make me happy – marked at 70% off. I looked at the mob at the registers decided I really didn’t like it and my current card holder is good for another million mile.

We made another stop at a Tiffin Motorhome dealer that just happened to have in stock a 2019 coach very much like what we might consider, if we wanted to replace GeeWhiz which is now 6 years old. I have played with the numbers and they can be made to work. Fitting the new coach on our site might be a problem, or not. The occasion for this  process was the desire to have a bath and a half. If I had a house, I could build a half bath for a lot less than this was looking to cost. There are lots of other nice upgrades that are available, but we seem to have chilled on the idea, at least for now.

On a more personal note: Since we have stayed in our resort, Carol got to working on the garden. while returning from the swale at the back of the site she took a path we both agreed was not the safest route. This resulted in a trip to Urgent Care where it was determined she had broken her wrist (radius above the wrist, non dominant actually). The break was reduced and if everything is good, in a week she will have a less annoying cast for as long as healing takes.

With all of this; this morning  we woke up to a horrendous noise from our forward heat pump/air conditioner.  My immediate diagnosis was that the squirrel cage fan was disintegrating. This was verified by the mobile tech who stopped by this afternoon and agreed to order a replacement. We have plenty of heating sources so no worries just one more piece of nonsense to deal with. In my younger years I would have been on the roof making the diagnosis and ordering the part. It is not a difficult job. I will gladly pay someone else to do it. The roof has gotten higher and smaller than it used to be. 

 We are looking forward to surviving the holiday season with little hoopla and a visit with the LA family.

Happy Holidays!