Ready to party!

Flags are up, lights are strung, beverages are cold. Come to Pike!

Rolling again

So things were not as bad as expected. We seem to have had "extra" transmission fluid which blew a relief valve. We'll do a big update when we park for the night.

Carl

Broken Down in Enfield

"Carl, is that smoke coming from bewteen your legs?"
"Why, yes, nudge-nudge-wink-wi HOLY SHIT!"

And thus did we discover that we had busted something in the make-it-go mechanism. Fortunately, we were just coming up on an exit in Enfield, CT, which had an overpriced hotel, both easily accessible and in need of some engine fluids in their newly-paved parking lot. We spent a relaxing evening swimming, hot-tubbing, and watching bad cable, and now await the tow truck. Wish us luck, we may need it more than we know!

-Carl

Pictures

I am a newbie to the blog world and although Carl loves to explain everything to me in great detail using lots of computer jargon, I like to get in there and just try it out. I am trying to figure out how to quickly attach a picture to the blog.  Here goes.

So, if that worked it is a picture of the first bumper stickers to grace the RV.

Kitchen Shit

Oh my God, I have so much kitchen shit, which is amazing if you have ever seen the size of the kitchen in our house.  Today something huge occured to me. As I was going through a million utensils that do everything from cracking a nut to smooshing garlic, I realized that it is all crazy. You only really need two utensils in life. Ready for it?
A spoon to stir AND a spatula to flip.  Really . The rest is superfluous.  And, if you are really handy, you might learn how to flip with the spoon.
P.S. I am not including knives here- that will have to be a whole other post! :)

- Kerri

First Night!

We moved our beds in, so we're sleeping in the driveway now! We are starting to sort out where things go, and how we'll do things in a smaller space. We're pretty level, but will have to get some blocks soon. Kerri is uphill, so she'll be rolling all over me, as usual. Em is already asleep, Coco is listening to some Harry Potter, and we will be asleep soon. I feel like there should be more fanfare right now, maybe fireworks? A band?

Going Live!

I guess it's about time we went public with this blog, so welcome new readers!  Please leave comments, make suggestions as to where we chould go, whatever!

Moving right along.....

Well, it has finally hit me this week that we are going to actually live in this 27' rv for a whole year or more.  Eek!!  I am super excited, but I got so nervous today. This limbo time is killing me.  I want to get on the road, but there is still much to do.  We will move the mattresses in this week, so we will be sleeping in the RV by this weekend!
We have been decorating and such.  The walls are much nicer than they were when we bought her ( I need to name this damn rig.  I can't keep using a pronoun)  We have put up some paper lanterns and pics on the wall. One of my favorite things is that i decided it would be cool to go crazy in the bathroom. I was inspired by a bathroom in a cafe in Felton, CA.  Anyway, I have so many postcards saved up from years past. I started putting the postcards on the wall and it was magic.  We can cover the whole damn wall with postcards!!  Woohoo. Now if the kiddos want to buy something in those crazy gift shops , we can say, " hey, pick out a crazy postcard and we will tape it to the bathroom wall."  It is a plan.
We also started bumperstickering ( a verb?) the outside of the RV.  The Rv is plain white and it needed some life.  I have always wanted to be one of those freaks who had a million bumper stickers on their car, but I was always a little chicken. Plus, my Dad is a car dealer and he always said " don't sticker your car up, it decreases the value..." So, I never really did more than a sticker, maybe two if I was feeling wild.
Well, this rig is going to be sticker nutty.  Why the hell not?  We started with a NH and a VT sticker, paying tribute to the hood.  Then, we put up a Mystery Spot sticker that I have had for about 15+years.  We will pick up funny stickers while on the road and sticker away.
Coltrane and Emmett really want Calvin and Hobbes represented on the RV somewhere, so i am going to either try my best or enlist a student artist to paint us the pair somewhere.
Things are coming together.  It feels good.