New Home

We are buying the RV I mentioned before as being in Bakersfield, California. It is not perfect but nothing in life is, really, and it comes so close.

It is a 2010 Winnebago Journey Express 34Y and it looks like this:

It is a 34 foot DP. Translated that means it is almost 35 feet long and it has a diesel engine at the back end. It has only one door which you can see on the passenger side front. You climb several steps to get into it because there is storage on the lower level–known amazingly enough as the basement. The extended walls you see in this picture are called slides. The front one is in the living room and the back one is in the bedroom. On the other side is one that runs nearly the entire length of the RV which makes for lots of room inside. See:

In the living room here’s Linda’s chair:

And Dave’s chair:

And the view they face:

That’s the dining/computing area. It includes a buffet with a surprise. See the funny looking top of the buffet?

It hides this:

I suspect we’ll start watching movies again with such a comfortable place to do so. We even have a surround sound system so we can catch all the nuances of movie soundtracks once again.

This is the kitchen:

Most RVers call this a galley but I don’t come from a boating background so I bounce back and forth between the two terms. We now have a double sink and a four, count them four, door refrigerator! And a microwave/convection oven I can reach and a corner into which to tuck my bar stool so I can prepare food without having to stand too long. I’ve already started digging out some of my favorite healthful recipes.

Speaking of healthful, see this long aisle facing another big TV?

That’s where I plan to put a new Wii so I can go bowling or play tennis or golf or whatever else will help me get up out of my comfy chair and moving around some. Those cab chairs under the TV swivel to face the living room so our visitors can be comfy, too. The passenger one is a recliner with a built in foot rest as well.

I have no plans at all for this:

That’s the bedroom TV. Are you counting? That’s three so far for a couple of people who have watched no TV for the last year and a half. We would never have ordered this many TVs but the RV already had all of them in it and they wouldn’t give us a discount to take them out so, as far as I am concerned, the only value of this one is resale value some day when we are done with the RV.

But wait! There’s more!

This is the outside TV. Yup, TV number four. The one where we can have the neighbors over to sit under our awning and watch the big game. Or play in the big game if we put a Wii out there. Or watch what I do if I decide to start presenting seminars on RVing like I used to do on model railroading. Or something. Surely we can find some justification for having four TVs in a house that’s only 34 feet long! After all, the dealer who ordered the RV with all these TV must have justified it somehow.

Anyway, that’s our new home. At least it will be if the dealer ever gets all the glitches fixed and upgrades installed. The latest word is it should all be done ready for delivery to us next Tuesday. In the meantime, we now have keys to it so we can start moving our stuff from the 24 foot View to the 34 foot Journey. I think our stuff is going to get lost in there.

TTYL,

Linda

ps. Oh yeah, there’s a bed and a bathroom, too, for those of you who were wondering about that.