New Adventures…WOW!!!

It certainly is scary but together we will get through it all, unfortunately without Maggie…It was a sad day…She gave us a great ride for so many years but she got tired and we had no other choice but to donate her to somebody who hopefully will be able to fix all the things we just didn’t. So now we are pushing forward and find a new style of living, not sure what it is right now but we will figure it out.

To do our next event we had to get a UHaul Van and a hotel room and we had to go from the most north to the most south of our events which made it all very costly but we had a great show and made a little bit of money. Would have been a lot more if we just didn’t have those added expenses, but as usual we do what we have to do.

Our first stop was at Harrahs in Maricopa…the deals we get for casino stays and through our Gold status with Hotels.com are fantastic. The shower was wonderful and the bed was so comfortable.

We stayed at the Best Western Sonora Inn & Suites in Nogales, Arizona. They had huge rooms with all the necessities, fridge, microwave, and a really comfortable bed. Breakfast was fantastic with a daily variety for our 6 day stay. Customer service was amazing, they all stepped up and were very accommodating, especially Alexis who always had a smile on her face and a yes attitude.

Paying hotel rooms for the next few months was going to be outrageously expensive so we looked at other options since right now it is not a buyers market for our new RV. Finally…we found a Park Model in a central location for the rest of February, so for most of our weekend work we won’t need a hotel room. There are only a few weekends that are over a hundred miles where we will need to do that, so we have cut our expenses more than half…woot woot! Unfortunately, it’s not available for the month of March so we are actively looking for a Park Model for March, April and part of May. March is the tough part, otherwise everything is available beginning in April.

We emptied Maggie and all that stuff is in storage in Tucson which meant another one way UHaul trip.

Since it took most of the day to unload Maggie, we only drove a few hours to Yuma and stayed at Cocopah Resort. We were upgraded to a King Suite with all the amenities and HUGE TV screens. We had a patio, walk-in shower, a jetted tub, a very comfortable bed and a 2nd bathroom. It was just what the doctor ordered.

These are all phase fixes until we finally get to our final goal…a truck tow vehicle and a Class A motorhome or a truck that can tow a trailer for now. One moment at a time…it’s all we can do right now. We continue to look at the greatness in our lives instead of dwelling on the bumps. We have to keep one another smiling and laughing and just enjoying the little things.

Well That Wasn’t Fun At All

Time off was over as we begin our full schedule working with True Honey Teas with an event almost weekly, some several days long and a few with just a few days long and most with 9am to 5pm hours. This is going to be fantabulous…or so we thought!

We finished up our honey do’s in Yuma, still not finding our next home but it will happen but for now we are getting things ready with the vehicles we have. 

 

We had a very rough start…anything and everything has turned to crap in just a few days. It started off fine, we safely but barely got to the Big Tent before the motorhome began overheating. We assumed it was the usual but this was a bit different, but the good news was we arrived in our spot for the next 10 days and then afterwards we would have to deal with it. And, boy did we ever!

 

We setup and got ready for a 9 day show, even though it wasn’t as busy as it has been in past years, we thought it would be a good event…boy, were we ever wrong. 

The tent was frigid and our desert allergies turned to colds mid show and we were both dragging. No fevers, no body aches, just loss of strength, no appetites and coughing. I stayed in bed for a few days since the show was really slow, not the biggest crowds at all and as each day past it got slower. Absolutely did not make the money we had anticipated but we did make some.

 

Finally we broke it all down and were so ready to move out of the dusty desert…but as life would have it, we were so wrong AGAIN!

 

Life just craps all over us at times and we just have to take it and boy did we ever. On Monday, we limped across the street to a full hookup so we could take long showers and clean up the inches of dust and sickness EVERYWHERE, plus they were not allowing us to stay any longer. Then we called the only RV Repair guy in Quartzsite that would come look at it and to say things move slowly here would be the MOST UNDERSTATED statement ever.

 

It’s now Saturday, 6 days later and we are no further than we were on Monday. He has come out a few times here and there, never on time and either had to go get parts in Parker, which ended up being an all day task for him or there were so many other excuses why he didn’t show back up after us sitting around waiting for hours. This is not appropriate customer service but we had no other choice…we were STRANDED without any sort of paddle or lifeline.

After sitting and waiting for 6 days, the prognosis is that the bypass did not work, she continues to leak like a sieve, it’s coming from a place deep in her guts & bolts where it can’t be diagnosed without removing lots of pieces and parts. We are not going to dump more money into her like we did the Jeep only to have to dispose of it. This could have and should have taken just a few hours to have diagnosed and then by now we would have figured it all out, but instead…incompetence prevailed once again.

 

We now have Plan B to get us to our next event in Tubac, AZ for a 5 day event but it’s going to be costly but we will do what we have to do and then on our return we will strip what we can from our motorhome, put it in storage and then let her go and then hotel it for a few weeks, months, whatever is needed until we find our next home. Not idealistic but it is what it is…our life at times goes through so much crap that we are definitely used to it all by now. We are still laughing, joking and loving our lives. Thank you all for the prayers, it kept us afloat when we needed it most.