The Solution

Lutz, Florida  (high 91, low 70)

It’s HOT here!  I keep forgetting that it’s not summer time,  and when I read blogs about cool and cold weather, it brings me back to reality.  Our temps are about 5 degrees above normal and I wish it would be the opposite.

I sure wish we could head north, but we are staying around for a while because of Mom.  She has a few doctor appointments and I want to go with her to talk to the doctors and see what we can do to help her.

So…..nothing exciting to blog about.

Yesterday we washed blankets at the laundromat and then took a few things over to our storage shed.  We managed to trash a few things that were in the shed.  We plan on doing some serious purging in the motorhome soon.  It’s amazing how quickly things seem to accumulate.  Since we have a high amount of carrying capacity, we don’t worry about weight…so we tend to accumulate stuff!!

I started cleaning the motorhome yesterday.  It had gotten filthy from the wet roads when we left the Keys.  We had gotten a jug of  The Solution several months back.  It’s a waterless cleaner and wax.  Several of our Rv blog buddies used and recommended it, so we gave it a try.  You spray it on, and then wipe the dirt off with a microfiber towel.  I was concerned it would cause paint scratches or swirls, and was a bit leery of using it on our clear coat paint.  Previously, we didn’t use it when the motor home was very dirty.  We would hand wash the coach first,  then use The Solution to shine it up afterwards.  It worked very well and we never noticed any swirl marks….or I should say more than what was already there!

It also works great on bugs on the front end.  We try to give the front a quick cleaning each travel night, to avoid them baking into the paint. 

Yesterday, the coach was very dirty, so I tried a small area using The Solution to “wash” it.  It worked great,  and I didn’t notice any paint swirls or scratches.  I wiped gently and used a lot of the product.  I changed microfiber towels frequently.   I ended up doing the entire right side in a very short period of time. It did a great job with a minimum of effort.

So this morning I ordered another gallon jug.  We like the product for our cars as well.  It’s $40 a gallon and the shipping is free.  They send you a gallon jug and a pistil grip spray bottle.  You can use it for windows, rubber, plastic and leather (per the instructions) as well as painted surfaces.   I haven’t tried it on the leather yet.  We’ll see how that works.

Anyway, I just wanted to add my 2 cents and give recommendation on what we think is a great product. 

Settling In

Lutz, Florida

We left Lazy Days Campground yesterday and drove about 30 miles to our new home.  We’re staying at Winter Quarters Rv Resort in Lutz, Florida, which is a little north of Tampa.

It’s the closest place to Mom’s house,  and we stayed here quite a bit last summer.  Their rates get pretty high starting October and snowbird season so we spent the winter (when we weren’t in the Keys or Fort Myers) in another park that’s a bit further away.

We’re booked for 33 nights for a cost of $499.  That includes the 10% discount they gave us for being Thousand Trails members.  This year, they have new and better management and they allowed us to pick a “premium” site.  The park is not full by any means, so why not?   We chose a site that gives us some afternoon shade on the patio side.   We always seem to get sites that have full sun on the patio side, so this will be nice.  There are a lot of park models here but we don’t have anybody beside us and on the patio side there is a beautiful large Oak tree that we enjoy.  The bird feeders will be going up today.

So…I guess this is it for a while.   (sigh)

We decided we needed our  living room window awning since the hot afternoon sun was shining hard in that window. We’re having to pay electricity here, so we didn’t want that!

The little pull strap had gotten wound up in the shade, probably from when Lazy Days removed it when they replaced the slide gaskets.  We had never bothered to get it corrected but yesterday was the day.  We  discovered we had two problems.  The missing strap, and also the right side was locked up and wouldn’t extend.  Al finally took out a bolt on the arm that holds it in place, and we were able to extend the window awning.  What a difference that window awning made.

Our project for today is to install the sunshade on the window by the captains chair.  The afternoon sun shines right into that side, so it will be helpful.  It’s been hot here, and we’re expecting 90 degrees today.  We ordered the side window shades when we ordered our front window shade right after we got this coach.  You have to install the magnets that hold it in place and we never really needed it, so it hasn’t been done.  Todays the day!  Exciting, huh?

Oh, how I wish we could head north!  Jeanne and Eldy are enjoying Savannah.  Ralph and Donna are in Washington DC seeing all the interesting sites.  Both are places we had hoped to visit this summer.   sigh

It’s not that there aren’t lots of fun things to do in Tampa, it’s just that after living here 30 years, we’ve done most everything more than once!  Boy, if Al only had a boat!