We are home

We stayed at the 1000 Trails Peace River preserve last night and it was really nice.  We had bought a membership in the 1000 Trails system back in September and this was our first chance to use one of the preserves as a member.  We ended up building a campfire and cooking our turkey burgers on it.  All four of us ended up sitting around the fire and talking for another three hours.  Actually it felt like five of us since Erik and Jason were busy texting their friend Gina and she was included in our conversation via text message.

We called Lazy Days after we discovered that our roof issue was once again an issue.  We have really enjoyed the RV lifestyle but the roof issue was turning into more of a time sink than it was worth.  We discussed some options with a our sales rep Joanne Heppe and one of the options we wanted to explore was moving up to a Class A RV (our Jayco is a class C).  Joanne called us and told us of a couple of models that she thought would fit our needs.  Since Class Cs tend to have more sleep area than Class As we were initially more interested in Class Cs.  Joanne had found some Class As that had bunk beds in addition to the queen size bed and that piqued our interest.  

Long story short the Jayco is leaving the family and an Itsaca is joining the family.   The boys were very excited because now the rock-paper-scissors for the bed has become a rock-paper-scissors for the top bunk.  Each bunk has its own DVD player so that is a definite plus.  We took it for a 20 mile test drive and Jason texted Karen from the bunk while she was driving saying that he loved the bunk.  When Karen read the text aloud in front of Joanne we lost our negotiation room :-)  No problem.  We know we like the RV lifestyle and the parts of Florida that have been opened up to us so it was pretty much a done deal.   We have discovered that we either sit around the campfire and talk or around the dinner table and talk.  We have never found ourselves saying, "I wish we had a bigger bed" or "I wish we had a bigger living room" but we have found ourselves saying, "Boy, this dinette is small".  The dinette on our new RV is "U" shaped and very comfortably sits 4.  Tight fit it can seat 8.  The couch is also bigger.  In a pinch we can comfortably sleep 8 people and one rather large yellow lab.