Sunny and Cool

Our heater ran often during the night.  We awoke to beautiful clear sunny skies.  I took a photo of our "ocean view".  The water is calmer this morning.  You can see a fog bank offshore.  Winds are supposed to pick up to 30 to 40 mph later.

This lovely view is what we paid a premium for.

When we are hooked up to electric in an RV park, we take full advantage of recharging all of our electrical gadgets.  Before leaving home, I coiled and labeled every wire for every gadget.  They were all placed neatly in a container.  It was assumed we would be able to quickly locate the needed cable without having a big knot.

Plans sometimes don't work as well the ideas behind them.  We carefully packed everything in cupboards also.  We even went to the extra trouble of placing potholders and place mats between things that would rattle while driving on the road.  The reality is this:  When you open the cabinet for a cable, a huge ball of wire jumps out at you like some crazed Amazon spider.  When you open a cabinet for anything, you get bombarded with the contents.  We have braced, stacked and re-stacked but can't seem to come up with a formula that prevents the avalanche.  Our system may work well if you only travel on Interstates or the better state highways but if you go where we do, things do get a bit mixed up.  It is all just part of the experience.

We come across RVers who tell us they are full timers.   What some of them mean is they live in an RV full time in some RV park for months at a time.  I have a nice home back in Florida.  I don't care how nice your RV is, I would rather sit in my nice house on my own lot looking at the water than in some RV park.  Real full timers in my mind are people who move on every few days.  They are out to see the country.  Just my thoughts on the subject.

There are somethings you probably should only talk about with other RVers but I like to open a window into the lifestyle as much as I can.   Dumping waste is not the only area that probably should be left to the imagination rather than explained in detail as I tend to do.  What we call the sniff test is another one of those areas.

We met a young lady in Durango, CO at the laundry mat.  She has been traveling in an RV with husband and kids for a year.  They have been all over the country.  They are full timers in my definition.
She was telling us some of the things that become second nature after awhile.  One of them was the sniff test.  We didn't fully understand what she was sharing until a few weeks later.

Doing laundry is a pain.  Do you remember going to the laundry mat when you didn't own a washer and dryer?   It wasn't fun.   Traveling in areas of low humidity or cool high mountain altitudes you don't tend to perspire like you do in Florida.  At home a shirt is good for one day.  Sometimes not that long.  But out here where you spend lots of time driving your clothes don't show any dirt.  You wear them day after day.  Each morning you do the sniff test.  If it passes, you put it on.  (Underwear is the exception.  Who would want to sniff those.)  If there is a question whether a shirt will pass the sniff test, you may ask your spouse to do a sniff test also.  If it passes her test then it is definitely good for another day.  After all you don't see the same people day after day so whose counting.  Darlie reminded me that we do see the same people day after day or at least they see us.  Who, pray tell?  The people on your blog, dumby.    So from now on I will be sure to change my shirt each day.  I will still do the sniff test and if they pass I will put them back in the closet.  But you won't know that.