Moving Day...

 

It doesn't matter much if you are moving a half mile or 300 miles, you still have to unhook utilities and get all your stuff ready to move.  The big difference is: when traveling, you stop for the day and just get out what you'll need for the night.  If our fresh water tank is full and the holding tanks are empty, the only thing we need for utilities is electric.  When you're parked for a while, you use all your utilities and have all your patio stuff out and set up.  It is more work to move from the far side of the resort to Purgatory Flats than to just unplug and get down the road.

In order to get all our stuff to this different site, it is a process: we roll the bikes out of the trailer and put all our patio stuff into the trailer.  If we were to haul the bikes in the trailer, we'd have to go through the work of strapping them down, as opposed to when we're parked for a while, the bikes are just on their side stands in the cargo trailer.

Then, we hook the Equinox to the cargo trailer and move it first.  Joan rides her bike to the new site.  With the trailer on the new site, we block the trailer and unload all the patio stuff.  Move her bike into the trailer.  Unhook the trailer from the car, and take the car back to get my bike.  Put my bike in the trailer and lock it.  Back to the old site, unplug the motorhome (it's hot, we want a/c until we're ready to move) and take it and the car to the new site.  Back the motorhome in and start the set up process, much like if we had just arrived here.  Put down the leveling jacks (these sites aren't as level as the sites in the main part of the resort) and put the slides out.  Put out everything we had to put down or away for the 6 block trip.  Set up the patio.  Hang the patio sun shield.  Give Rufus a treat.  Sit down and catch your breath.

The whole process takes about an hour and a half to two hours.  We were moved in and ready for me to start some breakfast on the griddle around 10:30.  We have the whole day ahead of us.

Rufus has been in the coach the whole time and is, as you'd expect, a good boy.  I took him for a walk this morning and he munched grass like the thought he was never going to have it again.  Yes, there is grass in this new site, but it isn't watered and groomed like the sites "up top" (we learned that's what the staff calls it).  He will find new things to sniff around here... and we are closer to unmowed areas that I can't let him in because of the possibility of ticks.

The sites are not standardized like all those "up top" - some are longer than others, some are more level, the space between the sites varies.  We are on a pie-shaped site, so the front of our site is close to the neighbors on either side.  Plenty of width in the back on this site, and that is were we are situated, except for the cargo trailer.

It's funny how your perspective changes.  When we're on the road, if we're down more than one night, we make sure the coach is perfectly level.  Here, if it isn't perfect: "Hey, it's only for 9 days."  ;-) 

The patio set up...

The site...

Our view out back...

Lots of room for Rufus to walk.

The coach could really use a bath, but I will put that off until we get back on a paved site - the gravel here in Purgatory Flats leaves a coat of dust on everything.

Time for me to go make pancakes.