My Travels: 2012

Monday, September 17, 2012

Ordered a Lazy Daze today

(Montclair, CA) hi 84 lo 64 Drove down south 2 hours this morning with
my son to order my 2013 27' Mid Bath

I will be getting the brown with the modern
exterior paint job. Went for the maple cabinets.

I took the option of the 2 barrel chairs and table on the street side (in the rear) instead of the second couch.

Spent some time checking things out again and doing some measuring. Thought I would need to have more outlets put in but was shown where all of them were and decided that they would do. Added ones for the most part would be installed from above and I really like the idea of them to be lower and cords out of sight.

I chose two options. They were the CB and the manual satellite antenna. There were many others to
choose from but I opted for only the two.
We had a tour of others being built and could see the great construction.
The reasons behind buying a new one were:
1) of course being able to choose just how I wanted
things since I plan to have it a long time.
2) In the past year or so, I just couldn't find one of
this size and floor plan that was less than 3 yrs
old

Here is my official Lazy Daze Motorhome Manual.

I would have taken more photos but I was just too busy looking and thinking. Didn't want to miss anything that needed to be ordered or measured.
I was told that it should be ready for pick up in March/April.

Todd says now all I have to do is wait for their phone call. Yeh right....like that is going to be easy.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Good Sam Rally in Phoenix 2012

Couldn't resist taking pic of Lazy Daze..saw about 6 of them

(Avondale, AZ) Hi 89 Lo 58

Waiting in line to be parked. Took 1.5 hrs if I remember

This was my first RV experience. I didn't want it to
end. I am sooo ready. I flew into Phoenix and
caught a taxi to pick up the RV. Thought I wouldn't
make it there cause the taxi driver kept asking me
for the address with a question on his face. I made

it from there to the raceway alright. I had a GPS

with me. The total number of units there for the

Taken soon after I parked. My first RV rental.

week was 3370. Not knowing any better, I let them park me next to one of the big generators. For the first night, the noise from it reverberated in my rig. I slept maybe 3.5 hrs that night. If the wind wasn't blowing just right then I got the fumes as well. Yes I know this is not good. The next afternoon I moved the RV as far forward as I could. My neighbor gave me some earplugs and that all helped a lot. After the first night I ended up sleeping in the overhead cab. I was really surprised how little water I needed to use. We only had electrical hookups. That was fine. My propane level never fell below full. I only used my heater after 3:30a when I woke and was chilly.

I was hoping to blog while I was at the Rally but I only took my Ipad and couldn't get it to in put the pictures I had in it. There was wifi in the main tent.

Many companies servicing the rigs

I was placed right next to generator..I didn't know any better

View over to raceway

I took many long walks...perfect weather

The mattress in the back was nice. Too bad I couldn't sleep there. Everything else was fine and worked well.

This was mine. Got it up on blocks no problem

Watching the parking jobs

What a nice site

More services

Plenty of room

Loved the sunsets

Out for another walk before the show

Taken just before the astronomy show

Local astronomy club came by to share Venus and Jupiter

Doesn't really show how many booths there were

Other things going on besides the seminars

Most seminars were great

So much info that I had to start taking pictures

There were lots of businesses taking care of the RVs. I felt left out. lol You can see how close I was to the generator the first night. I moved a few feet the next day. I probably walked almost 2 hours each evening on top of all the walking done during the day, There was a tram from the parking to the main event. It was possible to walk and I did that also for the exercise. The weather there was so perfect. I love warm weather. I took more pictures but I guess they are not in this computer yet. On one of my walks I noticed another generator set up with no one hooked up and it was set up to service 100 rigs. That's a lot of power. Loved taking walks and see every RV and how people had them set up. I like looking for all the extras. When I first put the blocks in front of the tires I was afraid I wouldn't do it right. Thought I would run off the blocks or over them. When I got out to look I was just right. Lots of space for just one person. No complaints here. Couldn't get much better. It was interesting to see some of the planets and their surrounding moons. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Picture of a few of the 10 seminar tents

This will not be an option for me...but a necessity

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. I did buy a pillow. I am enjoying it. It's suppose to not go flat. So far so good. There was so much good information at these seminars. Had to choose which one to go to during each segment. The only one I would need to give a D to was the Satellite TV one. The very first seminar on the very first day that I picked didn't show up and was cancelled. Well I ran over to my second choice then. The second day I picked the Satellite TV one again and the lady seemed more like an infomercial. She started out naming the portable ones. Then telling you how long it takes to set them up and 40 min to get a signal etc. She then mentioned you would get upset at it and kick it then you would damage it. I think she didn't want people to buy the portable ones. If someone had gone to that seminar with no clue about satellite TV then that's the same thing they would know when they left it. She had no slide show or items with her to show. She stood at the podium doing a speech. A couple of the seminars I went to...the people had so much info to tell that it filled the 1.5 slot and could have gone over. Sometimes the outside speaker system would interrupt the seminars. As I preview this blog....it isn't setting up as I see it when I am doing it. The pics and text get all pushed around. So I am going to end here now.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Hello from Good Sam Rally in Phoenix

Can't upload pics from my IPad into this blog so will do the blog up right
When I get home.

Good Sam Rally in Phoenix 2012 click

Monday, March 5, 2012

Santa Barbara Old Mission

10th CA mission to be started by the Spanish Franciscans -1790's

(Santa Barbara) Hi 84 Lo 42
Since I haven't written here lately, I have decided to post some travel type pictures of our local Mission. I took the tour today.