I woke in a panic… I don’t think I locked every door and
hatch on the RV… it may have been stolen!
I had to get up and double check but, relief, our new home was still
there.
After the usual morning routine
of using copious amounts of coffee to get Simon to wake up, it was time to load
up the RV. It was an amazing feeling
hanging up the clothes, making the bed (complete with TWO memory foam mattresses!!)
and there was so much storage space, adequate room was not going to be a
problem. However, this took until lunch time and we were yet to do a food and
supplies shop.
Where else but Walmart, the devil in disguise. It will become a theme in this blog - even
when popping in for a quick, cheap shop we end up spending a fortune at that
blooming place, they must see us coming! Okay, so this time was an exceptional shop as we literally had
to get everything – coffee, tea, washing up liquid, meats, veg, pasta, rice etc.
but even so the total bill was a shocker! (Another one to add to the ‘preparation
costs’! It’s okay, there is a page
listing it in ‘the book’). After
spending a couple of hours traipsing every single aisle finding lots of extra
‘essentials’ to buy it was heading into late afternoon and so a re-think was
required.
The great departure would have
to wait another day. There was no point
setting off with only an hour or so of light left. Plus, we could spend a night getting used to
our new home on the safety of our friends’ driveway, a 'road-test' of sorts but
in fact the complete opposite!
I think we had a pretty early night. Our new bedding, or comforter to our American
friends, is incredible – a dark red sheepskin woolly cloud on a bed – no
overstatement, I slept like a baby and this is still our favourite purchase yet
in the US…. Apart from the RV of course!
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