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Our New House

It was brought to my attention that we haven’t updated our Blog since 2013. Since we have become stagnant and haven’t really traveled for a while I didn’t have much of interest to post. Not that our life isn’t interesting, there just isn’t much RV Travel going on.

Well recently we have turned another page in our lives. We decided since we like our lifestyle so much that buying a house wasn’t in our plans. However we have pretty much outgrown the RV so…

We bought a Park Model home in the same resort where we have lived for the last 11 years in the motor home. If you are not familiar with a Park Model, it is a small 400 square foot manufactured home. Ours however is a bit more than a simple park model. First off ours is set in the ground so it is ground level, then a 200 square foot addition was added making it 600 square foot overall and the whole thing is stuccoed and the roof is tiled. There is also a 117 square foot building on the property, which serves as a laundry room and a shop. This building is attached to the house by a covered patio with outdoor kitchen. Along with the real residential appliances they topped it off with an air conditioner that can turn the house into a meat locker in the 120-degree Arizona summers. You can see more photos by clicking on the link in the left column.

I have added a link to the photos of our house HERE.

So, although we are keeping the motor home, it looks like we are not Fulltimers anymore.

Best wishes to all our readers and I hope your travels are as enjoyable as ours.

I will leave the Blog up because I know others enjoy reading about our travels.

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

gila bend



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The trip to Gila Bend was great. The desert is green and there are large patches of desert flowers with a backdrop of rugged mountains. We decided since it was 4 hours to Lake Pleasant (Phoenix), and we are not in any kind of a hurry, that we would break it up. Gila Bend is a town with a population of about 700 and is ½ way between Yuma and Phoenix. We pulled into the Wheel Inn RV Park, Car Wash and Laundromat, well that's what the sign read. What A Mistake! This place was a dump but I figured it was the best we were going to find around here. After all it was only for 1 night and the price was only $18 for full hookups. Susan was so unhappy and I wasn't too pleased myself so I decided to go scouting. Just down the road I found The Gila Bend RV Resort. This is a Chevron fuel, Am/Pm Mini Mart, Subway Sandwich, Pizza Shop and RV Park all in one. The RV Park has clean large gravel sites with clean restrooms and laundry. And the best part, It's $10 a night for 50 Amp full hookups. No that's not a mistype, it's $10 a night. We paid for the night and ordered a sandwich for dinner and still only paid $18 total. Just outside our bedroom window is the best view of the desert and mountains. There is no Cable TV and we are too far from any kind of TV station but it only took me 5 minutes to setup the Satellite Dish and we have TV. Now we can get a good nights sleep before we head up to Lake Pleasant.

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