Wednesday 19 January 2005

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Awake 7:15 am Temp -6 Overnight @ Marriott Springhill Hotel 6 hrs 45 min

A good night sleep for both of us. Complimentary breakfast in hotel lobby.
I ask Kathy to start calling financial institutions to bargain on rates
while I have a duplicate key made for our storage unit & finish stacking
the last load of things we brought over there last night.

The key made @ Andy's Ace Hardware works fine. The final stacking took 20
min & when I backed the RAV 4 into the building unit as a test, there was
a good 6 inches left between the car & the door. This is good.

Back to the hotel where I take a rare, slow & really hot shower. Kathy has
been busy on the phone & has already worked out several options for when
our electronic check comes through from the house sale.

We leave our bags downstairs in their secured storage room, then visit
Jeff, our accountant to get a head start on 2004 taxes. Then to Alaska USA
for more personal bargaining on rates. I make a quick trip to our Credit
Union, then return to Alaska USA. Our chores are done now. Finances taken
care of, storage unit locked up and looking good, house sold, etc.

Now we visit the Foote family & spend a little time with Matthew...this is
when we find out we have a buyer for our 1984 Ford Van. We are surprised!
It's someone who actually knows what a good vehicle it truly is and...it's
Melissa. She & Kevin are planning ahead & I will probably sell it to them.

We say our "goodbyes" to the Foote's & our little grandson, stop @ the
Holiday gas station for RAV 4 fuel, stop @ our mailbox for today's mail,
then to rendezvous with Katrina @ 6:00 pm outside of the gate of our
storage facility. We are running late...it's 6:20 & she's not there.
Katrina is very tuned into being on time these days but the masters of
being on-time are late tonight. We circle the Costco parking lot & find
her car & Kathy finds her inside talking on the phone with Melissa trying
to find out where we are. Anyway, she follows us thru the gate to our
storage unit, I park the RAV 4 inside...close the door & lock it. This
chapter is closed for now.

Katrina drives us over to Mooses Tooth & joins us for one more fling with
the pizza & beer scenario before dropping us off @ the Marriott Springhill
hotel. We say our goodbyes to Katrina, get our travel bags + garment bag &
Yenny drives us to the Alaska Terminal in the hotel van for our 1:30 am
red eye flight to Phoenix. It's been another busy day but now a long
awaited calm seems to have come over both of us. We are looking forward to
our new RV lifestyle.

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