Things Have Changed!! A Bunch!

Well Plans have Def changed since last time i posted. Here is a quick Catch up!

 I am Happily Married now to the most Wonderful Woman!

We are still in Texas and we will be here till at least May of this year.

Main reason is that we have decided to buy a 2012 Forest River Wildwood X-Lite 261BHXL
Travel Trailer!

We ordered it last week and are waiting for it to get here (hopefully next week)!!

We had LOTS of Truck Probs since we have been in Texas but as of right now everything is Fixed and a new Motor in it!

We Moved into our First RV park December 28th and we Love it. (We are in my Wife's grandparents travel trailer till we get our new one in)

We have Great neighbors and lots of room outside to BBQ and hang out outside!

 I am planning on Selling my Motorcycle and my Truck Camper to help pay off the new camper faster to get us on the road faster!

I'm sure there's a ton i missed but for now that's all... I am gonna try to do better now that everything is calming down around here to Keep up with this Blog...

Im Engaded!!!

On the Trip I took my gf Amanda to the Redwood Forest where we stopped at a trail and I had a really nice leather sign made saying (Will you Marry Me) on it. and had her grandpa put it inside a huge hollowed out Redwood tree and I proposed to her in front of it and she said YES!!!  I will have the pictures of this up soon too

Back to TX from Cali

Ok its been a while...... I had no Computer or real Internet since ive been gone only had my phone with hardly and service! North Cali was Amazing! Got to see lots of wildlife including Bears and also went to Fort Bragg to goto the Beach, And San Fransisco for a day! I have Tons and Tons of Pics that I will upload soon but for now i am tired and have lots to do so in the next couple days i will have pics up!

Headed to California

All right i am leaving tomorrow (Friday) to go to Cali to see Amanda! I am staying there until July 28th and i wont have much internet access there since were gonna be up in the mountains. I will be taking tons of pictures along the way and will try to post when i can!

Few more pics from today

Added new Battery Powered LED Light above bed near our heads.

 New A/c location

 Outside A/c Location

 Now A/c doesnt stick out past camper, and if i hit a campground that doesnt allow window units they will Never Know. And Yes some parks dont allow them.

Thats all for now.

Just a Couple Pics..

109 degrees in the camper! 102 degrees outside

                                                      Gotta paint it and carpet the top still



Been crazy... Lots going on tho..

Well Amanda and her mom have been in Cali for almost 2 weeks now. Everything has been good with them. Wish i was up there in the snow instead of th 95+ degree weather here. But I have slowly been working on the camper. I installed the AC in it today will have pics later. I started building a new step/storage to get into the bed area, It will also house my propane tank. I framed up where the old stove was all i have left is to lay the plywood down then laminite the countertops. Still lots to do but its coming along

Mothers Day Update!

Happy Mothers day to everyone especially my Mother!

Lots been going on since my last post! We are still having many garage sales trying to get rid of everything. Added a few new things to the camper pics will be up soon.

Also Sheila ( My Gfs Mom ) Got a travel assignment about a week ago in Quincy, California. It is a 3 month assignment. This is one of her favorite places to go so she couldn't pass it up. So she is bringing the 2 kids along with since it will be so long and my gf will go with to help babysit her sisters. Me, Lee (Sheilas husband ) , will be staying here in TX to finish up the 2 campers, fix the trucks, and finish downsizing so that when they get back from Cali we can hopefully start our Travelling! Its gonna be extremely hard being away from my Amanda for 3 months but it will be worth it once they get back!

There will be alot more updates soon. They leave on May 14th.

Some more Remodeling

Adding Storage Arm Rest to the couch.

 Still gotta add the lids and then paint them

 Ripped out the stove top

 Ripped out the Heater

 Finished painting the cabinit doors

 Changes the fridge from green to red. Looks good in person



Been A While! Bad News

Ok so alot has happened in the past 2 weeks...

Well we loaded up the camper in the truck on the 6th and decided to pack up and move back down to Texas that night! So we loaded up and hit the road around 7:30pm. Amandas parents knew we were coming and my brother knew we coming but my parents had no idea! We wanted to suprise them!

The Truck drove perfect, Very smooth and could hardly tell the camper was on the back.

Untill.....

About 750 miles into the trip I was going up a hill and the truck started running real rough and started losing power! I pulled over immediately and happened to be across from a ford dealership. All gauges were good but when i checked the oil there was hardly any! I had checked oil not long before and it was fine! So i bought a gallon of oil and put in and truck ran fine for about 100 miles then did same thing. Out of oil! So in all i went thru 10 quartz of oil in 200 miles! I made it home to tx somehow! Well i took it to the shop in hopes it was a head gasket or seal since the oil was coming out the exhaust! In the end i got the WORST news possible! Needs a new Motor! Ive had the truck a week and needs new motor! Mech said theres no way the milage on the odemetor is correct but theres no way to prove. He said motor is completely wore out!

Just another HUGE step for us to overcome so we can start our journey! In the end I will have a Rebuilt motor with a warrenty! Cant let it get me down! Just gotta take it and move on!

So ive been here a week so far and soon to be doing more work to the camper and lots of downsizing still to do! 2 storage units to empty out or at least consolidate way down. Garage sale this weekend! Gotta save up $3500 to fix truck!

Catching up!

Ok so the past few days I have been extremly busy and have not updated this so i am gonna throw it at you today!First off I got the Tie down system installed on my truck and it ended up being cheaper than we expected!!! Yay!

2nd I went ahead and added some wood to the floor to strengthened it. and to add tile to later.

3rd I made the platform I had taller since my truck cab sits higher than the previes owners did.

We started jacking the camper up to put in the truck and realized our first prob!!!! The jacks didnt go high enought to get it in the truck! So I added some wood to the bottoms of the jacks to at least get me in for now. Jacking this camper up in HIGH WINDS is not fun at all! We were very Nervice! In the future were buying electric jacks instead of old hydrolic jacks.

But we made it in after 2 days of trying! What a stress reliever!

 

Fits so good i can even shut the tailgate!

And were Off!

Another Long Day

Spent the past 2 days Selling off everything we own pretty much. And the rest of it going through and consolidating it! Figuring out how many cloths to take and what all to have is alot more difficult than it sounds. Didnt realize how many dvds i had till we got out all the cases and realzed we had over 400! That would of taken up all the room in the camper so i had to throw away all my dvd cases :( and put them in 3 cd cases...

I did however get a appointment to get my Happy Jack Tie Down system installed on Tuesday! Once thats installed (way over priced) i can put the camper in the bed and we can load it up! That will be the real test to see what we can bring!

I have my Training class for my New Job Tomorrow (Monday). I cant wait! This is prob the ONLY job i have ever looked forward to!

Well my camper was put to the test today! The day started off with 87mph wind gust that was knocking over trees and powerlines. Then in the Afternoon the temp was around 80 degrees. By about 2pm the skys turned and temp dropped down to low 30's with very Heavy Sleet! After about 2 hrs of that it cleared up and warmed to high 40's. Then all of a sudden around 6pm it started snowing extremely hard with high winds in the 50s. Prob the wildest snow storm i have ever seen! And well it slowed down for a while and we thought it was finally done, Until about 10pm and i look out the window and the snow is back again! Its 11:30pm right now and we have about 2inchs so far! So if my camper survived this day I think Im in good shape!

Here Comes the Storm

 The Sleet Begins

 Amanda Eating Lunch

 The Snow Begins

The Snow Still going!

Oh Yea on top of the crazy weather, The Apt Fire Alarm goes off!

Thx to a girl pulling the alarm!



New Toy

Istalled a Under the Counter TV/DVD/Radio In the kitchen directly across from the Couch.

Came Out Good To Me!

Selling Everything Begins!

Ok now is the time we start selling everything so we can get on the road! We started taking pictures and and posting everything on Craigslist! Kinda sad but its glad to see were getting closer! All ready Sold a few things!

Added new Light

Added this Battery powered LED Rail lighting incase i get stuck without power!

Ok Only 2 doors left to paint but the rest are done and mounted!!

What Do you Think?

Cabinit Door Painting...

Started Sanding, Primering, then painting the cabinet ddoors today. Most are done and several still need the handels put back on!

Will take better pictures later on.

Thanks to my Parents who helped get this step done today!!

Out with the Old in With the New!

Traded in the cars today for our new truck! A major step closer to being on the Road!

Amanda's VW Bug

 My Dodge Dakota

Our New F-250 4x4