Yesterday we sold our coach after 8 weeks of advertising, answering phone calls and showing the rig to about 2 dozen people. I've sold 3 houses, numerous cars and several boats but this was the hardest sale of my life. There are just so many RVs for sale out there it is simply a buyer's market and shoppers can afford to be very very fussy. As my real estate agent says however "there's a lid for every pot" and the right person showed up yesterday. Now that we've become Tucsonians it hardly seems right to have our blog named The Gypsy Life Journal, but we'll keep the name for now. We've looked at a number of 32' class As at the RV shows and think this might be the right size for non full-time travel. For now the construction and remodeling here at our new digs offers a great deal of excitement and we don't miss fulltiming. When we got up this morning we both felt like we had lost something we loved but it just wouldn't be practical to keep the RV here in the desert. To keep an RV parked here you really need a shelter to keep the sun off it and the pack rats out. It the short term I've kept lights under it every night to keep the pack rats away but they can be very persistent. I had a small debris pile here from the demo I did for the new French doors. After just one week I overturned some scrap plywood in the pile and found a hoard of Mesquite beans and Cholla cactus; a pack rat nest! Everyone here in our neighborhood parks their car with either the hood open and or a light underneath. Just one of the many ways how life is so different here in the desert. We love it here!
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A desert pack rat. Another reason to try to keep the population down is that they dig tunnels all over your yard. The tunnels themselves are harmless but are often used as shelter by rattlesnakes.
Yes, those desert Pack Rats are definitely a force to be reckoned with & will be a worry for us when we return this winter as well. Much to learn about living in a desert region for sure. But what a great learning experience it is:))
ReplyDeleteMaybe not so different from Connecticut. We mainly use my 4WD SUV for the winter and my wife's Prius for the rest of the year. In the spring, the Prius was making a strange rattling sound. As we got into summer, the AC stopped working. Took it into the shop and learned an enterprising chipmunk or mouse had made a nest in the car. The mechanics pulled 40+ acorns out of the car. :-)
ReplyDeleteBest of luck to you guys as you get settled in!
James, Nancy, Cameron & Nathan.