Tuesday Feb 20th, 2017

This has definitely been the week for dreary but necessary business, so while the insurance companies and the RV Dealership were finishing up their end of the things, we took the day off! We ran a few quick errands then headed into Surprise to visit with Jean and Randy in Happy Trails. Jeannie made us presentable again – JP got a haircut and I got the works! It was great to kick back, visit, have a raspberry margarita (or 2) and finish the evening off with dinner at the Golden Coral, A great place to eat to your hearts content and waistbands dismay! Nothing like a good nights sleep on a full belly! It’s always fun to hang with the Miners! I’m hopin’ we can get together again before we head to our next destination on Sunday in our NEW Lucky!

Monday Feb 19th, 2018

This week sure won’t be the most interesting of blog posts because we are all about the trailer search. Today we spent the day looking online, on our phones and in rows and rows of RV’s.

Then for some relief we went to one of my favorite AZ restaurants The Wildflower Bakery where they have awesome turkey waldorf salad and sourdough bread to die for! Then back to the drawing board.

It seemed like this would be easier but there aren’t many trailers in the size we want and there aren’t very many used trailers on the lots. We scoured RV Trader and Craigslist everyplace we thought we may be staying at or driving through but just couldn’t find a match. We did find a new Springdale trailer in Turlock Ca. but we wouldn’t be headed that direction for another month.

So Camperworld in Avondale (25 min away) is a Springdale Dealer – and had the brand new version of our original Lucky. Some things have improved in 7 years and some things not as handy but pretty darn close. SO – I had the ad info from the Turlock Trailer and after all the negotiating for best deal, we told the sales guy we would likely hold out for the Turlock trailer because the price was still less than their very best final offer  – so they matched it and the deal was done. We are on the way to having a 2018 version of Lucky! The rest of the day was a blur of terms, condition, insurance and finance stuff. We were beat by end of day and happy to get back to “old Lucky” before dark.

Sunday Feb 18th, 2018

We were up and at ‘em and on the road from Tucson to Buckeye today. It’s a couple hours with traffic so we pulled in mid-day. We’ve really got a routine down so we were set up in no time. It’s hard this time of year in AZ to find available sites. We checked into Leaf Verde RV Park. Ours was their last open site, at the end of the road, with a fire hydrant at our door and no room for a picnic table. It would be a bother if this week was going to be anything but shopping for a new trailer. So it isn’t great but it’ll do. Buckeye has all the basics like Wally World, a shopping center and a Panda Express. We’ll be fine here! Plus there’s the extra bonus! Surprise AZ is only a half hour away so we can spend some time with our friends Jean and Randy .