Hello, this is the traveling blog for Rhonda and Paul! We are another of growing couples that have sold their "sticks and bricks" house for an RV. While Paul is still working "for the man" full time, Rhonda has been working on personalizing our RV and supplying awesome support to Paul.
In February 2018 we traded our Jeep Wrangler (which we absolutely loved) for a 2017 Ford F-350 crew cab to start the process of selling and moving from our 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath condo in Florida to a fifth wheel. In April, we found the fiver that we thought could be our new home at Lazy Days, and it turned out to be a very slightly used 2018 Grand Design Reflection 303 RLS, but we couldn't pick it up until we had an RV park to place it in! We continued to sell our big items out of the condo and donate a bunch of other stuff, and there was a bunch! The downsizing was very difficult and at the same time, it helped free us from things that really didn't matter. Late in April we did our "shake down" overnight stay at Lazy Days which went well. We are happy with our experience at Lazy Days, but not over the top happy...more on that in a future blog.
May 2018 was a huge month for us. We found an RV park that we could stay at for a few months, as Paul's current job assignment was coming to a close and the new one was not yet finalized. Then we went to Lazy Days to have them install the 5th wheel hitch and the wireless camera for the back of the rig. Our first tow was to the new RV park, short but stressful for Paul as it is the first time towing a rig of over 30 feet in over 20 years! All went well, except for the 45 minutes of maneuvering in and out of the space, which had a lot of pitch but was next to a nice little pond. At the end of May we finished moving our "stuff" into the fiver and closed on the condo.
We stayed in the Tampa area until the end of July. Then we moved out of state to our new work location...
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