2013/07/14 – Sunday – Vacation - Day 24 - Made it Home

We left earlier than normal, which is always good to get across the desert.

Our first stop was for gas in Barstow and while we were stopped, we had/got lunch.

Next stop was for gas again but it is for topping the RV off, ready for our next trip.  Then a very short drive to home!  Yes we are home!

Of course I had to do the vehicle shuffle and get all the vehicles in the appropriate spots.

We got the RV unloaded and now I guess ready for a relaxing evening.

2007/06/19 – Tuesday – Pets and Shopping

Lunch, well my buddy had a late meeting, so he told right before his meeting – no 24 hour notice – hmmm. I went home to get the paper work, ate some lunch, and then headed on over the insurance agents place. I got the van added to the policy and the Prius taken off. I also increased the coverage based on his recommendation. I still need to think about the personal accident policy.

After work, a co-worker that has the same type of scooter like I have, helped me start taking apart the scooter to find out what is wrong. The circuit board has burned marks. After connecting the battery back up, we saw more sparks. So now we removed the circuit board, we tried to connect the battery direct to the motor and then we started to smoke the battery. So I think the motor is toast! Tomorrow we will look at the motor.

When Cheryl got home, we all went to the vet’s with the three dogs and the two cats. They got their shots and I have the necessary paper work for the animals for our trip.

After dropping off the animals, it was time for grocery shopping; with a quick stop at Del Taco for dinner. Mom did call to ask a question.

We put away all the RV stuff and now it was time for bed!

2007/06/16 – Saturday – Busy!

We all got up fairly early – 8:00. First thing was we need to get the dogs (Zircon and turquoise) to the groomers. One the way over to drop off Cheryl and Amanda we stopped at Starbuck for their drinks (I don’t care for their drinks).

Once Cheryl and Amanda was drop off and the nail place, I went back over to the Toyota dealer to drop off the pink slip for the Prius, and to pick up the wireless headphones and remote for the DVD entertainment system and the remaining door key. The items were found and given to us without any problems.

The next stop was at Radio Shack to help in getting the XM radio connected to the van radio – and cable and some double sided tape.

Once, back at the house, I worked on putting stuff away in the van. I started to work on putting the XM radio in the van. I put the outside antenna on, ran the wire – looks like a pro did the job. I used tat double sided tape to hold the mount and then used the cable to connect the XM radio to the supplied AUX connection. I also showed the van off to a neighbor.
The Gardner was here this morning also, so I went ahead a paid him for the last three times. When it parked the RV this last time, I did not leave the Gardner enough room to get the lawn mower, so I had to help in get over the trailer so he could cut the backyard grass.

I finally got the call from Cheryl (Amanda), so off Eric and I to go pick them up.

The next location was lunch then Camping World. O man spent WAY TO MUCH!!!

While Eric and I started putting things way, Amanda and Cheryl got ready for a Square Dance Invitation.

Eric and I, put things away, I put the new DVD Player in (run purely on 12V, no inverter needed), replaced the broken cup holder, put the shoe hold in place, put the air mattress up and make the bed, put together the new BBQ, put the new vent cover on, and few other things.

Cheryl of course drove the van to the SQ Dance and took Mom D and boyfriend. While they were gone, I continued to work on the item listed above; I also worked on some readying of blogs.

Cheryl and Amanda got home about midnight, She still need to take CJ home, but wanted to drop off Mom D and boyfriend first. She did ask if I wanted to come along, so I did. But before heading to drop off CJ, we stopped at McD and get a midnight snack! The kids (Amanda and CJ) enjoyed the move and Cheryl and enjoyed the drive in the new van.

We finally called it quits and got into bed about 1:00 am.

2007/06/15 – Friday – New

I got stood up again by my buddy, so lunch was with a friend over to the Italian place on Candlewood.

Well, looked like we are going the new car route. The Prius needs $6,000 to fix it and it is a 5-year-old car, first style model. I think it was burning a little oil and we don’t know what else might be going wrong, and the price to fix it…

Cheryl picked me up and we headed on over to the Toyota Dealer. A sales person took us to one of their van. He showed us a Sienna 07 with ALL the options. We did a little negotiation and then it was off to the finance. There the month price went up a little bit more, but we got the security system, Low Jack, and the 6-year/100,000 mile warranty. WOW, we got a VERY NICE vehicle!

Once we got the keys, they brought out our (no now theirs) Prius over so we could transfer all of the stuff out of it and into the van.

We did do some driving around, Mom D wanted to see it, and we still haven’t gotten dinner, so we drove around a little…

We got back home about 10:30. I worked on emptying the van out of all the stuff from the Prius. I did a quick read of the manual for the van. Some really cool things! I then started to put some of the stuff back into the van into appropriate locations.

Now its 12:30 and I need to go to bed. – Later…

2007/06/14 – Thursday – Expensive

Lunch was by myself; my buddy did something else, so off to crazy chicken.

I got a call from the dealer about the status of the Prius. The current price to fix the “trans axle” (the transmission) is $6,500. A few more phone calls and discussion about what the trade-in value and or fixing the car. One of the sales person called me back and offered me $5000 for trade in, so that sounds good enough, so we will buy a new car.
Tomorrow we will be car shopping! Great a car payment again! Cheryl has been doing a lot of searching on the different models of Toyotas.

Cheryl took Amanda to the youth group.

I tried to work on a laptop, but my CD is not working.

2007/06/13 – Wednesday – Car troubles

Lunch was with the group of co-workers to celebrate the June Birthdays at Chiles

Cheryl and Amanda went to CJ Graduation.

I took the Prius over to the dealer to find out what the noise is when we decelerate at about 40 to 55 mph. The noise sounds like the tranny has no oil. I then had to wait about an hour and half before a shuttle was MADE available to take me home.

When I got home finally, the dogs need food, so off to the store to get dog food.

Sense the Prius is in the shop, I needed to get the Jeep ready so Cheryl has something to drive to work. So I had to clean it out – put away all the offroad stuff and fill it up with gas.

I finished the laundry – the only thing left is tomorrow is take the towels out and put them away…

I did work on the route, and put them into PDF format, so that they can be printed. The “Trip Sheet” is for the kids to keep track of our progress and they seem to really like them in the past.