Awake: 6:08am Temp 38 sleep 5+56 partly cloudy overnight @ Miami, OK.
Kathy tells me she’s been lying awake since 4:30am….just lying there….waiting for me to wake up. She didn’t wake me up though; I woke up on my own. She tells me that she gently tried to wake me up, but then decided to be patient & wait.
She is disturbed that a certain motorhome that Sam introduced to us & which has gained our attention has such limited refrigerator storage space, especially compared with our current Amana. How unusual that Kathy would be awakened by such thoughts & so early in the morning; this sleeper is serious? What’s going on here? I suggest we Google the Sub Zero & definitely find out the difference.
Sure enough, the Sub Zero refer (2) drawers with a total of 5.3 cu ft. is indeed smaller than the Amana ( 14.8 cu ft) which we have now….like close to 1/3; unbelievable! Even the freezer in the Sub Zero is only 5.1 cu ft compared to 7.9 in the Amana.
After breakfast, we visit Sam to discuss this critical dilemma. Within (30) min, Kathy had opened Sam’s eyes to the missing refer space & I had convinced him that something also had to be done about the cramped computer desk & LCD TV placement to make this motorhome more attractive for the discriminating buyer. When Sam took a serious look @ this, he called in Tommy & before our very eyes….they put together a plan that might actually work. Take out the Sub Zero freezer drawers & in its place, install a full size Sub Zero refer with freezer that when added to the already boxed refer, will end up with a little more space than our Amana.
Now don’t go getting the idea that Kathy is easily swayed into another motorhome just because of more refer space; what we are doing here, of course, is just casual talk.
Late morning, our tax return & our regular mail from Alaska have arrived. I spend some time looking over all of these papers & then, write a check payable to the U.S. Treasury for 2006 taxes; then another check for estimated taxes in 2007.
Earlier Kathy hinted to Sam that neither of us have ridden in or driven this motorhome we are talking about. Sam agrees that we should do that & around 4:30pm we do. (6) yrs of advanced technology makes a big difference; I am impressed & Kathy seems to be as well. She said the ride is smooth, quiet & powerful with strong steering with short turning capability. I think she likes it.
Would you believe, Sam volunteered to have this new motorhome parked in the service bay & tomorrow, I could back our 2001 coach alongside this new motor coach. What then? We could begin the trans-loading of our stuff. Wow Kathy, can you believe it! We’ll think about it overnight; after all, we just stopped in here for the Easter weekend, free camping, & the convenience of being near a Catholic church.
Late dinner: leftover chicken burgers, egg corn squash, brown rice & salad.
Later movie: “Heaven” with Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Mattia Sbragia, Alberto Di Stasio, etc. An English schoolteacher living in Italy is frustrated by corrupt drug culture that’s harming her students, plants a bomb in the office of a local bigwig & suffers the consequences. During her police interrogation, a young, naïve translator falls in love with her & helps her escape. 2002. We both found this unpredictable saga very spellbinding & entertaining.
High today=54 Lights out: 12:44am
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