Shopping…..Oh, how I love shopping….

Well, it looks like my parents sold their lakeview home in Northwood. My mom quit her job for good. I have to say “for good” because this would be her third job that she “retired” from. My dad will quit his job in two more weeks. I’ve been helping them move stuff out of the Northwood home listening to my dad telling everyone around him that he is now officially “homeless”. They have a fifth-wheel now and they bought the 34 foot Sportsmen brand new back in 97. Just as I was there to help them shop for that one, I am fully participating to assist RVing shopping this time around. We drove down to Merrimack to the Camper’s Inn this afternoon and wandered around. There was practically no one there, I think I counted four people - one receptionist, one salesman, and two general managers. The salesman hurried right over to greet us (of course he did!) and my parents told him that we were just looking around for a new fifth-wheel, and, of course, I was just along for the ride…..ya right! We looked around at alot of 2009’s and saw alot of different options that weren’t around back in 1997. Can you believe they make RVs that come with an electric fireplace! In my opinion, I would just rip that right out of there and put some doors there and, voila, more storage space. When you live out of an RV, there more storage space the better, and you learn this pretty darn quickly (within the first week). Anyways it came with a big window that takes up the top half of the back of the fifth-wheel which is one of my favorite features of an RV…….got to look out the big window and see what’s going on, especially when you are on the laptop or eating dinner. No, I’m not nosey, just curious! Another cool feature to this unit is that it had a desk in the corner with a chair which I claimed that space to be my office! It’s got closet space to put in a washer and dryer……if anyone has never seen a washer and dryer in an RV, it’s not exactly one of those two separate machine set-ups. It’s one machine with the door in the front and when you put your clothes inside it will wash and then dry your clothes with one push of the button. Pretty neat huh? Lesson number two about living out of an RV: (remember lesson 1 – the more storage space, the better) Lesson 2 – when you realize that using the washing machine and dryer at an RV park has you waiting until 10pm for a free washing machine or dryer, you will find space in your RV to install your very own unit! Well, we were exactly satisfied with the RV selection at that particular Camper’s Inn, so our salesman checked inventory at the other Camper’s Inns locations and found one that will suit our level of comfortability needs. A Montana 38 foot Fifth-wheel, picture window in the back, well, click here for a view of the exact floor plan of this Keystone unit. This unit is sitting down at the Camper’s Inn in Kingston and it was too late to go there today since they closed at 5, but they do open at 11am tomorrow (Sunday) so stay tuned for the continuation of our RV shopping excursion……