Picking up the Motorhome

On Wednesday, July 7th, we headed to Amarillo, Texas again.  This time to pick up the motorhome.  We had an appointment with the former owners to finalize paperwork at 10:00 a.m. Thursday morning.  Neither Bob or I slept too well that night in anticipation of finally taken position of our motorhome.  John, the former owner, again talked Bob through many details concerning care and maintenance.  Then we all took a ride to the diesel station to fill up.

Next John and Bob attached the car to the motorhome and we drove around with it attached.  Now we were about 60' long instead of 40'.  On Tuesday, July 6th, we had the car equipped with a Blue Ox Towing System.  We looked for a recommended dealer in the Dallas area for Blue Ox and made our appointment with Holiday World in Mesquite, Texas.  It took most of the day, so we were glad to have Heather's car so we could leave and come back when it was finished.  The people at Holiday World were so accommodating we would highly recommend them to others.

Bob and John then headed into Amarillo, by car, to register the motorhome and get license plates.  I stayed with the motorhome and our car and started unpacking.  We had loaded some of our things in the car but we also had a tow package that had to be attached to the motorhome so we could pull the car back to Dallas with us, so we couldn't bring everything.  It was fun unpacking everything!

John left us on our own and we went out shopping at Wal-mart for necessities, like toilet paper, coffee, coffee maker, cereal for breakfast etc, etc.  We spent our first night in the motorhome, in the park in Amarillo, where we purchased it.  We were leaving early the next morning to Dallas, with a night's stay in Witchita Falls, Texas.  You move much slower in a motorhome, than in a car.