Work…Repairs…Anniversary…Life!

We began having a leak from our water heater and within days it got worse, to the point of almost a steady flow. After checking around about repairs and hearing the costs of hundreds into thousands we decided to dig into ourselves. We had to remove our shelf area which took the longest of time, and then investigated…found the leak…replaced the water pump and voila the leak stopped. We do make such a great team in ALL areas of our lives.

We had to be out of the Thousand Trail system for a week so we stayed at Holiday Village in Mesa, Arizona. They accepted Passport America for 6 of those days and ended up costing us around $150, not bad for this area at this time of the year. Check out our separate blog for the entire review.

And yet another “Road Trip”…this time to Pinetop, AZ to work a Jyve at Safeway. We opted to stay 2 nights since it was an early and long work day. It was nice to take roads we had not been on before, mostly because driving Maggie on some of them is too scary, but driving MayC works for us. We’re getting pretty good at this Jyve work, quick and easier every time, and doing the traveling is like a short vacation, we are really enjoying ourselves.

We stayed at Green Tree Inn & Suites in Pinetop-Lakeside in a suite and it was nice. A fantastic shower head with all sorts of settings which helped our aching muscles. A firm king size bed, couch, chairs and room to just hang out. The parking area still had not been shoveled and it was hard maneuvering around and it had not snowed in days.

We have been extensively traveling now for so much of our lives and have been so blessed not to have many incidents. On each of our last two road trips we had tiny incidents…on our way to Flagstaff,  still in Mesa on the 8 lane freeway, an idiot at a high rate of speed, sharply passing us ran over this huge item in the road and shattered it right in our path…no way of avoiding it for us, HE COULD HAVE but chose to cross the lane right over it. You could hear the hits on the car but was low enough that it didn’t hit the windshield, and we thought we got lucky. That was until we arrived at our destination and we seen our shattered turn signals. Easy fix, they needed to be ordered, so after a week we replaced them and they look marvelous.

Our next trip to Pinetop, again still in Mesa, we had something hit our windshield. Luckily, it was not in the middle and it didn’t go through, but it is a huge hit. We will wait to see how it progresses before we do a repair on it. We do have glass repair on our insurance, but still not sure how we will handle this incident yet.

On Saturday, January 18, we celebrated 23 years of marriage. Our bond is stronger than either of us ever imagined it could be and we are grateful. To have been so blessed to not only find our life partners in each other, but to be the best of friends as well has been the most spectacular experience ever. We work together, we play together, we strategize together, we plan together, we cry together and we always have each others backs. This lifestyle is not for everyone, but for us it’s perfect!