AC

The air conditioning is still not right. Allen has cleaned the coil, which seemed to help, but the breaker is still tripping infrequently. This means that I am still stuck here unless I take the cats with me, which isn't always possible. The next step is to change the capacitors in the AC since we've changed the breaker and cleaned the AC. If that doesn't help, we don't know what to do. The technician at the Airstream dealership has been very helpful and says he could do no more than we have done with the exception that he would charge us $90.00 per hour!

I'm at a crossroads in this lifestyle. Our coach is small, but we were willing to work with it until we decided definitely what type of RV we wanted when Allen retires or if we even wanted to continue this lifestyle at all. It does have its drawbacks, so far the benefits have far outweighed the minor drawbacks we've encountered.

Friends in the park tell us to go ahead and buy a fifth wheel, there is more room, that will make all the difference. We don't see it that way. We don't have the resources to make big purchase mistakes, if we did, we wouldn't still be in our small motorhome!

We now have to make some hard decisions. Do we repair this RV? Buy another RV while still this far out from Allen retiring? or Do we give up and go buy a house? I don't want to put a huge amount of money into repairing an RV that I know I don't want to keep for an extended period of time but on the other hand, I don't want to purchase a fifth wheel and then decide I'd rather have a motorhome or vice versa. When it comes time to sell or trade in a RV it is just the same as a car, it is never worth what you paid for it no matter how "good" the deal was!

Well, we can procrastinate a little while longer. We're changing both capacitors in the AC tonight. Now I am keeping my fingers crossed that this will solve our problem and postpone major decisions for a little further down the road!

Until next time...here's wishing ya'll a peaceful journey down your highway!