Settling In

Been fairly quiet around here as we settled in to a nice routine.  Pat goes for a swim for a few hours each morning until just before lunch and I do routine work on the RV during that time.

We went through three separate events of heavy rain on the trip down here so the coach needed to be cleaned.  When we purchased the coach we elected to have a ceramic coating put on top of the paint and I am impressed with how well it keeps it clean.  Water beads off more readily than without, and other than road dirt that gets picked up and deposited in weird places it looks pretty good.  So, I have been cleaning portions of it each morning before it gets too hot and the sun starts to heats up surface.

I had read and have now seen for myself that US water is almost always very hard and most RV owners deploy a water softener to keep the hard water from affecting the plumbing system as well as leaving water spots all over everything.  This will be a project for me to do while we are in Quartzsite this winter so I have been measuring and trying to figure out a way to install one in the area of the coach where the water system is located.  Will keep you apprised of that as it happens.  The hardness must be enough of a problem there is even a service truck that comes around to peoples Park Model homes and services their water system as they almost all have large softeners as well.  

Pat has been experiencing a bit more back pain this week but we suspect it is more to do with the different muscles she is using now in the pool so, to exercise that out hopefully, we have been going for frequent short walks.

Tomorrow will be a fairly busy day as it is a prep-day for travel on Monday.  We will do a last shop for perishables as we are not sure what to expect in Quartzsite but we know it wont have the selection.  Then there are things I need to do to get the coach ready as well, so it will be a full day.