Friday, September 23, 2011

Every day in Every Way...

We get better and better and better.

We continue the saga of mechanical issues and minor improvements as we work our way into this full-time lifestyle.  Having made it to Livingston, TX, we decided to just hang it all out for a while. 

The Escapees park at Rainbow's End is a nice, friendly place with a good deal on "pay for 15, get 5 free".  A small pool is great for an early morning splash ( I swear I bought absolutely the LAST swimming suit at Wal*Mart) and there are lots of places internal to the park to walk the pup.  This suits us fine until the end of the month.

We are changing our state of residence to Texas while we're here in Livingston, so we'll need get new drivers licenses, new voter registration and title the vehicles, but first we need to get the vehicles inspected.

Before doing THAT, we thought we'd get a few little things taken care of on Maya first, like the squealing brakes.  Yeah, right.

We brought her down to West RV Repair in Livingston and so far we've spent 3 days and 2 very pleasant evenings camped here next to the garage while they work on her.  With electric and water hook-ups  who can complain?  The neighbors are sure quiet after 6 pm.

The biggest hold-up has been replacing the mufflers, which has sort of turned into replacing a good portion of the exhaust system, but along with that has gone replacing the failed BRAND NEW steer tire on the passenger side, replacing the burned spark plug wires, replacing hoses we already paid to replace in Wisconsin, tweaking the timing and  so on.  These guys are great, and what else do we have to do other than spend money?