That changed everything!
Our allotted time at our home park came to an end yesterday. So, we headed that way after breakfast and went through our quite familiar travel day routine. The big difference, though, was we weren't traveling far. We were coming home.
We bid our farewells to our home park hosts. Although the place isn't much, we've been so grateful for their hospitality over the last four years. They've gone above and beyond trying to accommodate us, sometimes on very short notice. We are so thankful. We'll miss the place...just a bit.
Bullwinkle made his way from our spartan park to the suburbs, with me following behind in the squirrel. I was nervous about many a low lying branch along the way, but Paul maneuvered around each and every one like a pro. With the last turn into our quiet cul-de-sac, Paul pulled into our long and level driveway, which turned out to be just barely long enough and not really all that level. But, it will do.
Sitting in front of our new home, Bullwinkle looked huge! We were amazed at the difference in scale between a 40-foot motorhome sitting amongst a sea of RVs in a park and one lone machine sitting in the driveway of a modest suburban split level.
It's big!
The cute kids from down the street came a runnin' when Bullwinkle pulled into da 'hood. They kept a safe difference until we were properly docked. Then, they were itching for a peek. And, we quickly obliged, offering the kids, their mom and a couple of other neighbors a quick tour. It was unanimous. They all agreed we have one awesome moving van.
With the tours complete, the real work began. With six weeks before our next trip, we opted to pretty much empty the moose of most of its contents, for now anyway. That'll give us plenty of time to launder what's dirty, use what we don't yet have in the house and figure out what needs to go back into our anytime rig.
After two days of unloading the moose, I have just one question.
Who put all of this stuff in here?
We still cannot believe how much stuff we've pulled out of the moose. We squeezed a whole bunch of cargo in 400 square feet!
Many, many, many trips from the moose to the house wore us both to a frazzle. But, the good news is Bullwinkle is just about empty. We'll wrap up the job in the morning before we take him across town to our favorite service spot to take care of a few odds and ends before we put him in storage.
Oh yeah. Bullwinkle has his very own storage spot. We secured it just the other day. It's covered, which is dandy. But, it's skinny. Very skinny. The moose will be cozy, indeed. We keep telling ourselves that in time it'll get easier to park in that skinny little spot. We shall see.
As our second week of home ownership comes to a close, we're celebrating the fact that for the first time in four years most of our belongings are in one place. It's not all unpacked, mind you. But, it's here.
Like I said, we're getting there!
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