Life's turns in the road

What a few weeks it has been. Life sure can throw many wrenches into one's path and making hard decisions can be such a challange.

As you all know i have posted about being happy and content inside Ms. Southwind. Not wanting a larger home to live in, not wanting to deal with slide outs, not caring what others think of my home that i love and all that stuff. My hubby on the other hand hasn't felt the same as me for some time. He feels confined at times, would like a bed he could stretch his legs out in, a ceiling that doesn’t feel like is on top of him and esp a home he doesn’t have to duck his head to keep from hitting it. But most importantly a home that meets our daily needs to survive.

I told you back in December about the air conditioner going out, the furnace, There are other major items that need to be repaired. Just last week we had to order 2 new tires and the front end will be aligned as well. We are waiting for the new tires to arrive. So right now Ms. Southwind is not moveable. Living our lifestyle that is not good.

Well little did i know there was new plans in our future. Hubby and I had been discussing the pro’s and con’s of repairing Ms. Southwind to the correct working condition. She is 24 yrs old and more and more things are going to continue to go wrong. Esp moving up and down the road and being used on a daily basis. Hubby has noticed recently several pieces of rust laying underneath and around Ms. Southwind. Rust is becoming much worse underneath and who knows what problems will occur from that. There are other issues that i have not mention as the list goes on and on. It’s been a ruff winter for Ms. Southwind as her age is beginning to catch up with her as she begins to fade down hill fast.

Well after much prayer and consideration of how we want to continue to live our lives. Do we want to move into a stick/brick home and be back to the expenses, putting up with neighbors and being stuck in one place or do we want to continue our journey of exploring and roaming our beautiful country. We weighed the pro’s and con’s. If something happened to one of us what did the other want to do with their life as they moved forward? It was something we both needed to take a good hard look at.

The decision was made .. neither of us wanted to be tied to one place .. neither of us wanted to give up our freedom of moving our home where ever we felt God wanted us to go or even where we ourselves desired to go. Living life on the road of freedom these past 3 yrs have made us realize that we enjoy the freedom. Yes at times there are hardships, esp when something goes wrong. Yes at times you miss your family, with many other things we had to take into consideration happening in our lives in the end, living life on the road where ever home is parked won out.

The decision to start looking at newer rigs was made. We started looking on line and doing some calling around. We first only started looking at gas motor homes. After talking to numerous other motor home owners and our own experience with Ms. Southwind the decision was made to look at diesel RV’s. We found several we liked and it was amazing how close in price they were to the gas RV’s. Every time we found a rig we thought we'd like it would either be already sold or major problems. We also knew that Mrs. Mercury is going to have to be replaced very soon. She is experiencing many things that are in need of repair. Mrs. Mercury has rolled over to 160,000 miles! Her air conditioner doesn’t work and the heater can not be turned off unless you unhook hoses and re connect other hoses. She has a little man inside the dash that never shuts up! He talks from the time she is started to the time you turn her off. We have grown use to the little man but at times he is very annoying! The window is getting worse from our Florida trip .. remember that huge bridge and the horrible wind?

So it’s been decided to look for a new home and tow vehicle because of too many costly repairs. You will have to stay tuned and see what is next in the future of southwind adventures.