I woke up this morning to the sound of rain falling on our roof. I took a look out the window and saw a blustery, overcast day. The weather guessers predicted a possibility of rain tonight, not first thing in the morning. A day with rain showers is okay though. I’m not complaining.

I didn’t post to the blog yesterday, mainly because Tuesday was just another day. Nothing remarkable and I didn’t have a story to tell.

We have a neighbor behind our site with a travel trailer. He’s a retired San Diego lifeguard. I think he has a job though. Every morning, around 8:30, he fires up his old Mercedes. I think it has a fuel pressure issue. The engine starts reluctantly. When it finally starts, it idles very slowly. I can hear him feathering the throttle, trying to get the engine to rev. Sometimes it just dies. Other times it will rev wildly, then run out of fuel as he plays the throttle and then it dies. He goes through this ritual four or five times before the engine settles into a steady idle and he can drive away. I told Donna this wild revving is known as an Italian tune-up.

When he came into the park, I noticed the tires on his trailer were under-inflated. Tuesday, I was standing outside and noticed they were nearly flat. He came home as I was standing outside. I pointed out the low tires. I told him that I have a compressor and could fill his tires if he wanted me to. He appeared to be stunned by the offer. It was dark, so I said I would fill them the next day. He went into his trailer. After the door closed, I heard him holler, “Yes! That’s what it’s all about!” I like to think he was talking about my unexpected offer of assistance. Yesterday I filled his tires. They had about 20PSI of pressure. I pumped them up to 60PSI.

I drove to Home Depot in Shauna’s car later in the day. I was looking for storage containers to organize things in the trailer. I bought three stackable, heavy duty Rubbermaid Commercial totes.* I’ll screw one of them to the floor in the trailer, then I can stack the other two on top and secure them together with a strap or bungee through the handles. Each container has a 20-gallon capacity. This will allow me to securely store odds and ends for travel.

Before I came home, I stopped at Sheila’s house and picked up a NetFlix disc that Donna ordered. We’re going through the Breaking Bad series. We’ve watched the first season and are starting season two, or so we thought. Season two is broken up into three separate discs. The disc we queued up from NetFlix turned out to be the second disc of season two. We debated whether we should send it back and get the first disc or watch it. We ended up watching it. It wasn’t too hard to piece the story together. Now we’ll go back and watch the first disc of season two before moving on to the third disc.

We are on the prowl for a new (to us) motorhome. I’ve decided to buy a diesel pusher model. I have a few in mind. I spend a couple of hours every day looking online at used motorhomes for sale. I try to be realistic when I look. I have budget limits and I also have certain requirements. The floorplan needs to accommodate Donna’s office needs. The engine and chassis need to meet my expectations. I think we are better off buying an older, higher-end model than a newer entry-level coach.

Last week, a coach I can only dream about came into the  RV park. The security guy told me the owner comes here frequently. The owner is in his 80s. He traded in his 45-foot Newell for a 2012 40-foot Newell last year. He wanted a shorter coach because it’s easier to maneuver. Newells are custom-made from the ground up. They design and build their own chassis to support a coach constructed with the finest materials. His 2012 40-foot, two-slide Newell was $1.5 million!

2012 two-slide 40-foot Newell

Our plan is to leave here the day after Christmas. We’ll stay at Hidden Shores RV Resort near Yuma for a week. From there, we’ll go to the Phoenix area where there are a few coaches for sale that I’m interested in. I expect to buy a new coach next month if I can find what I’m after. They all look good on the internet. I’ll have to actually see and drive them before I know if I’m really interested.

Today, I’ll drive up to Menifee (Sun City) and visit my step-dad. Donna will stay home and work on some book promotions she is doing. She’s offering one of her Kindle books, How to Declutter and Make Money Now, for free through Saturday, December 21. Consider it an early Christmas present! You might also want to grab Secrets of Professional Organizers, a 3-volume series, while it’s on sale.

*Just so you know, if you decide to purchase one these through the Amazon link in this post, I’ll earn a small commission. It’ll go into the beer fund. Thanks!