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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.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Sioux Falls Park


Well, you can’t go to Sioux Falls without seeing the Sioux Falls. Yes, there is a reason why it is called Sioux Falls. Today we visited Sioux Falls Park while the Motorhome was in the shop (more on that later). This is where the Sioux River comes crashing down over a section of Quartzite stone. They created a park around the falls which was pretty nice. There were a few people just sitting in the park enjoying the sound and sights of the falls and a few kids fishing from the rocks. I guess the locals around here call it there own Niagara but I have seen both and there is NO comparison.

As I said in the earlier post, The motorhome developed a starting problem. I found that it took a few cycles of the fuel pump (key on, key off) to build up the fuel pressure to start it. Fortunately there is a Workhorse shop in town so we buzzed by on one of our outings. They said, sounds like a fuel pump and they can get me back on the road in 1 day. I said how about Monday since we have to be out of the park that day, so the appointment was made. They found a pretty clogged up fuel filter and we decided to go ahead and change the fuel pump since the filter had a lot of crud in it. They had the whole job done in 2 hours. Tonight we are “camping” at the Sioux Falls Wal-Mart and will get an fresh early start in the morning.

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