Picking up speed

When I first started this blog I spoke about our plans to sell the house, get a winter rental, retire next year, buy an RV and head out next spring. Well, scratch that! We are most certainly still going Fulltiming but our time frame has changed. My how it has changed. To catch you all up:
  Let's see, Paul retired the end of March from his fulltime job. Since then he has been crazy busy getting the house spruced up and working part time. He has done an amazing job, painting, fixing, cleaning, etc. Love that man!
  I have put in my retirement papers and my last day after almost 30 years at the library will be September 27. Now that's a great birthday present to me, LOL. I too have been busy sorting, tossing, planning, going over the finances again and again. With this is mind we have decided to fast forward the timing of heading out. If all goes as planned and the house sells relatively quickly we are looking at sometime in October to be on the move.
  Speaking of the house. We have a realtor and the place is going on the market! Wish us well for quick sale.  Now thinking of the logistics of selling the house and having somewhere else to live was getting a bit nerve racking for us both. Which led us to decide, well just go for it now. We have purchased our new home! A Coachmen Freelander 27QB, Love love love the floorplan of this one. A Class C motorhome, no slides, 30 feet bumper to bumper, a true queen size walk around bed. It has a dinette and a sofa and adorable kitchen space. I fell in love at first site seeing it at one of the many RV Shows we have gone to, it showed up at a our favorite local RV Dealer, Scotts RV Center, in Lakewood, NJ. I like to think they got it especially for me as I have been back and forth with Anthony (salesperson) about what we wanted and low and behold, there it appeared! Thank you Anthony! After going down to look at it on their lot and Paul (who we call Taller Paul for obvious resaons) (other salesperson, Anthony couldn't be there the day we went down) giving us a great tour and overview, pointing our feature after feature, we decided to talk turkey. We had already been online looking at what other dealers were asking for this unit so had a ballpark figure of what we would be willing to pay. When they came in even lower then that right off the bat, well, yes, done deal! I highly recommend this dealership to anyone looking to buy an RV. They are straight shooters and show you what you want not what they want you to buy.

So there we are with a new RV and hmmm, okay, so now what are we doing to do with it? Certainly can't park it in our parking lot. We wanted it close enough so I could travel easily back and forth to work after selling the house. We found a great site at a local campground. The owner was so helpful, explaining the way she runs her place and suggesting several sites for us to look at. Told us to walk around the park and let her know when we settled on one and if down the road we weren't happy with that site we could easily move to any other open site. So that's what we did, we walked around and around and back and forth, eyeballing each site as carefully as we know how. Walking front to back looking for evenness, bumps, roots, ruts etc. I think we found the best site for us. Signed the agreement and will be moving the rig in Tomorrow!!!!
  Phew! yes, tomorrow we go back to Scott's, get an approximately, 4 hour training session to learn all the ins and outs of our new home. Then we get to drive it over to Pine Cone Resort and Campground where we will stay until heading out Fulltime. Oh my my my. As I said our plans have certainly accelerated.   With all this I am hoping to post more here about our experiences learning our RV and our new life adventure.

Of course More and better photos to follow.

Ta for now!