RV Preparations

Preparations are going well for the motor home. I will take it to my mechanic tomorrow, two days ahead of schedule.

Here are some of the repairs I have made. I replaced the side partitions on the shower and replaced the bathroom and kitchen faucets with real ones instead of the cheap plastic RV fixtures. This include repacing a broken coupling for the kitchen faucet. The local RV place had a magic fitting that simply pushed onto the supply line and clicked into place. That was the easiest plumbing repair I have ever done.

The previous owner (PO) had a gawd-awful mess for the "home entertainment" system so it had to be redone. I removed all the coax cable and multi-device switches and went back to basics. I now have a nice flat screen LCD TV mounted on a cabinet door in the bedroom. Behind the door is a DVD player and storage for remotes, DVDs, and whatever else I might want to view. There is another TV in the overhead between the driver's seat and the passenger seat. It too has a DVD player hooked directly to it. Both DVD players play CDs so now music is only a few buttons away. The regular radio is all screwed up so my mechanic is going to sort that out. The PO had some morphodite system that would only let the radio work if the toilet seat was up and the left turn signal was flashing.

I had a blind man come out and take a look at the windows and I plan on replacing the window shades with pleated blinds, a little more modern and tasteful (The blind man had no problem seeing the windows). I can only hope the price is reasonable.

The bedroom has real tight quarters and the previous owner managed to put a foot through the lower wall next to the bed. I took some plywood and made some wainscotting which will take a little more abuse than the masonite walls.

I have a local cabinet shop looking for some T-moulding to replace some that is pretty well beat up and Phyllis took some fabric covered trim pieces with her so she could get replacement fabric.

With all of these repairs done or in progress I feel good about being ready to roll come April 8.

If I knew how to post pictures I would add them and if I knew how to copy documents to the blog I would post my itinerary. I WILL learn these skills so I can post photos during my adventure.