After a very nice vacation from retirement(?), we are once again parked in the RV drive behind our little house in Wickenburg. The drive home from Palm Desert was uneventful, although we had gusty winds most of the way until crossing into Arizona which put an extra workload on me as the driver. We did manage to keep the high profile RV between the lines and got home without incident.
Overall, Damsel and I are very pleased with our excursion. We saw beautiful scenery in Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California and we were able to have an extended family reunion with Damsel’s sisters and a brother while we were in California.
Damsel managed the housekeeping in the RV including feeding us with fantastic cuisine along the way and when we camped in Stockton, she and her sister took turns at preparing wonderful meals. We both will be going on diets to get back to where we were before we took off on the excursion. Meanwhile, we are resting and contented.
I still say you need to stick an HF rig in that thing!
Maybe one of these days the radio interest will come back. In the meantime, I have the little Bao Feng VHF/UHF gadget for simplex or repeater use.
We are seriously thinking about trading the gas coach in on a diesel pusher after the first of 2017. Maybe I will rethink the HF possibilities after that.
Does a Diesel get that much better fuel economy?
I think it will get eleven MPG or so – the gas coach gets around eight.
The big advantages will be 1) less engine noise, 2) smoother air cushion ride and 3) better climbing power.