After leaving Brazel’s we continued north to our friends
Art and Wilma’s place in Bonney Lake WA.
We spent Tuesday going to RV dealers in the Fife area. Our first stop was actually in Milton, right
on the border with Fife. Look what we
found!!!
Art checking out the 2004 Monaco Windsor.
When we would first talk with a salesman, they always ask “What are you looking for?” So we would give them our list. It must be:
38-40
feet long, 3-4 slides
400
Horsepower (Cat or Cummins) diesel with a side radiator
2 sinks
NO booth, must be table and chairs, with storage under the window
Full closet and plenty of clothing storage in bedroom
At least 2 full pass-through storage units
underneath
So when the guy from Northwest Camping Center in Milton
heard that list he said he thought they had one that fit that description. He took us out there and then left. Most sales people graft themselves to your
hip and don’t allow you to talk to your spouse in private. I’ve tripped on some when I turned around too
quick and had them standing right there.
But this guy, Chris, just left us alone to look. We spent about 90 minutes going over
everything, checking it out. We decided
we were very interested, but continued our rounds of all the other dealers in
the area. Sure enough, the next day we
are back, with Art in tow, to take a test drive. We also took it to the Diesel shop where Art
works, to have the engine checked out.
Everything went good, so we made an offer and it was accepted.
We had them add this for Wayne, the HD TV sports fan!!!! It is nice to just push a button and have satellite TV. putting up the HD dish on the tripod was so hard, I thought we were going to divorce before we could get it set up some times!!!!
On Thursday we headed up to Monroe to park our old coach at
Brady and Shelly’s place before we met our daughter Becca and her boyfriend Bo
for dinner in Everett. We would spend the next week getting moved out of the old coach and ready to trade it in on the Windsor.
Becca and Bo
From May 9th until June 23rd we spent time with our family and friends in western Washington, got moved into the new coach and then went to eastern Washington to visit Wayne’s family.
The 'Sibs' with Daddy on his birthday (can you see the resemblance???)
The 'Non-Sibs', also known as the spouses...
We had dinner together again on Mom's birthday, raising a glass of her favorite wine in her honor
Our family
I had to take a quick
trip back to the Seattle area when my Dad ended up in the hospital, but he was
back on is feet by the end of the week and I was on my way to Spokane.
Parked in front of Wayne's brother Rick's place in Spokane
From Spokane we went south to Pomeroy to
visit Wayne’s Mom on our way to the 2013 Summer Ride which began at Baumgartner
on the south fork of the Boise River.
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