0025 - No biggie

We are staying here for a few days. We want to make sure the truck is good to go before we strike out again so Mike is taking it in for a checkup tomorrow. He cleaned the MAP sensor today... it was nasty. He showed me the cleaner he put it in... it started out orange, and ended up looking like cappuccino. Sensor looks a lot better now and I imagine our gas mileage is going to go up.

While he did that I reorganized the kitchen. The first leg of the trip everything stayed pretty much in place. Second leg, for some reason, cabinets opened up and stuff poured out. We also realized that some of our cabinet bottoms aren't as sturdy as they seemed, especially under the kitchen sink where the bottom literally fell out. I had a lot of canned food that we didn't really need *now* so I have culled that out and put it underneath in the belly of the beast, and moved the heavier cans to a more sturdy location. We're learning as we go. Life in an RV isn't like life in a house - there is a definite learning curve.

Last night we cooked our first meal at home. Nothing fancy, just burgers with chips and onion dip, but it makes us happy. I was already in love with him, but one night when we were staying in Austin we decided to borrow a movie from the front desk and make onion dip for dinner... when Mike said that was one of his favorite things, I fell even harder. It's nice when you have things in common, but the silly things that you have in common are the best. Anyway, from now on I think we are going to be eating at home more. Eating out is nice if it is occasional, but eating out all the time gets to be old. There is a lot more variety at home, even if you make sandwiches.

Yesterday we walked around and took pictures of the RV park. We're both camera geeks so we have fun doing that. Didn't upload the pics yet, I'll get to that later. It's nice... right outside our window you can see the water and lots of trees. I love Sundays at the RV park... most people move on and it clears out. It's strange how there are lots of people, and they're near by, but it's still pretty quiet. Probably has to do with the volume of our a/c... Since it's summertime that doesn't seem to be the case here... there are people moving in this afternoon, blocking our view of the water. Hmph.

All in all we've had a couple of normal days and it's been good for us. I know I feel better.  Yesterday we went to WalMart and got more stuff that we needed... and some movies because we don't know how to get our Winegard to work property... so we don't have cable... which sucks. We were getting a total of three local channels, and they kept cutting out, but they do have a cable connections so now that we hooked in to them we get about 10... Mike has engineered a way to make it work, but it's not as easy as it is supposed to be... not by half. I want to watch Falling Skies tonight, so he gerry-rigged it to make it work. He's a good egg.

Tomorrow we'll get the truck checked out and then we'll see how much longer we'll be here. Hopefully it's an easy fix...