This is how I close up at night. pull the fabric out on both sides, the fabric is long enough to cover both windows in my RV b and I drop the upstairs fabric down for privacy. Since it is daytime as I write this the fabric looks thin but in the dark it works just fine.
Following the advice of someone, I made this my own with no thought of its resale value. I doubt this will ever have another owner, maybe a grandchild?
The colors are much brighter than they show here.
Old Lady Fell Out of her Bed
That’s me.
My bed is located over the truck cab. I have a ladder to get up there but haven’t used it because I can climb up just fine, til today when I fell getting down off the bed. Slide down, couldn’t control it landed on a little cart and onto thresh water tank, I’m going to be sore tomorrow but no real damage done.
Maybe I need to use the ladder. I tried to get it out from where its kept above the storage but it’s too tight for me to get down , I’ll need to ask for help, hate that! The ladder takes up too much valuable space, maybe I’ll just be more careful yeah, the problem was that I started to slip and I was not on the side but in the middle where the distance between the bed and the floor is greater than from the edge where I can slide to the bed below. Old ladies need to avoid falls but my bones are in surprisingly good shape for my age, the radiologist said so on my last bone density test.
Some people say people shouldn’t sleep in their cars. Why is that do you think,
where should they sleep is they have no home and are lucky enough to have a car to sleep in??
Now there are statutes that say it is against the law to sleep in your car.
What about sleeping in my rv?
This is my home, that doesn’t make me homeless even tho I sleep on wheels
Owners of RV parks say we should sleep in their parks, not in the street and they charge too much to just sleep there overnight.
If I am homeless where can I spend the night ?
Maybe we should be planning inexpensive housing instead of lining political pockets at the expense of the nearly homeless.
Maybe we need public bath houses with hot water and soap and potta potties for those homeless via just bad luck.
It can happen to just about anyone and is happening more often than ever, and it seems it won’t get better any time soon, our social fabric has been torn leaving many families and children fragmented and forlorn.
What is the answer?
It looks very nice inside but the information on it is very scant. Does it need new tires? Does it even run? Questions to consider before hitting the bid button.
‘reserve not made’
It’s my only hope
Please someone bid higher than $9,200 I need to be outbid before 11 hours when the bidding is over.
What was I thinking?
Was it the wine
31 feet,
I’ll be on pins and needles until bidding is over in 11 hours.
I suppose if I back out of this situation ( or even be able to back up this rig, ) they won’t let me bid anymore,
E bay will be mad the owner will be mad and I’m mad at myself.
I’d never bid or even been on the E bay site before my MacBook Pro died and I needed a computer I bought my MacBook refurbished on E-bay I didn’t know that the back light on the keys made such a difference and sent it back for a new MacBook Air, it’s fine but has a cheap cord. que pasa con Apple??
I saw where another woman, older than I, who bought her rig on E bay site unseen and is very happy with her choice. Don’t know what her family thought about that, I’m pretty sure what mine would think, I hope I never have to tell my kids about this, I don’t think they read here.so I may get away with this situation. .It would reinforce their concerns about my ability to manage living alone and driving a RV.
I have a surprise for them, I may not be alone. Now it would be nice if it was a big strong man traveling with me to do all the tough stuff but no, she is a strong woman with whom I may be sharing the tough stuff. She is my adventure seeking sister in-law who loves nature, is up to take a road less traveled, is strong and is in the same financial situation I’m in. Not a good place to be in at our age, life happens and here we are in a difficult pocket of time. ( not sure what that means but I like how it sounds.)
Finding a situation where there are 2 comfortable sleeping areas is a concern. Two woman traveling together, living together need some separation and privacy but these RV’s are not made for 2 people who are not sleeping in the same bed.
OMG my bid has been removed and I am no longer responsible for this 31 foot home. Help has arrived! I thank the dealer who forgave me, he even thanked me for letting him know there was a problem. The problem being me. I told a lie I must admit, I accused my batty Mother of making this ridiculous order, I have to watch her every moment!
Being unable to see advantages in doing one thing versus another,
Being unable to see the big picture,
Being unable to hold a memory or thought one moment to the next.
Difficulty completing a task and flipping from one project to another not completing one before starting another.
And spelling is just ridiculously difficult.
Sometimes my fingers know which key to type before my thought processes engage so I let my fingers type the words while trying not to think too hard and confuse my fingers.
Am I worried about this situation?
Yes
I’m 73 and is general good health with the usual complaints of this age and one difficult problem I generally keep under control. I could live many more years! MRI of my brain indicate nothing unusual happening there. I knew that.
I’m about to improve my social skills with my pending move from one state to another. I’ll get some adult social stimulation to get those ‘oh so important’ brain synapses processing properly. I haven’t done well socializing where I live now, no new friends or groups . Socializing, exercise , writing here regularly , all good when actually done rather than just thinking about doing.
I must do better, 
I can do better.
I will do better.
There is dementia in the family history.
This is a major social problem, some people live too long and wear themselves out, the body lasting nearly intact while the frontal lobe shrinks and dies.
If it was just the spelling it wouldn’t be a big problem dictionaries have the spelling, but it’s finding the words to use is a huge problem. Can’t spell a word you can’t find, can’t express yourself without the proper words.
And so it goes. For two years and then the picture changes and I go on the road.
As we age, do we look, feel and act differently to ourselves than we did when younger?
Do we have less expectations of ourselves as we get older.?
I asked my Mother and an Aunt, both in their late 80’s if they felt or thought any different compared to their younger selves and both said no, they felt just as they always have.
Dumb question, right answer
I’ve wondered about it because I’m not sure I could answer the same.
I sometimes feel myself diminished by my age.
I hope it is a passing artifact of life’s changes, surely I am a reasonable woman with a healthy respect for aging, even my own.
But I greet that old woman in the mirror with a surprised smile, Hello old lady in the mirror and I put my teeth in my mouth, dentures being another thing we don’t talk about even early in the morning.
I sometimes have trouble finding myself.
Who am I now in this phase of life, no longer a nurse, no longer a spouse, a mother not needed and even in the way, without lover or friend.
A time to contemplate and refresh, but I find myself filling my hours with busyness.
I like making, but is it an escape from thinking and making decisions? I need a plan.
I will find a plan,
a passion
I have a comfortable space with no real problems but those I invent in my mind.
Torn between staying in my comfort zone or reaching out for more, more opportunity more social interaction, more satisfaction, or remain where I am, where I can help my family while my soul dies quietly in the basement,
It took me almost 6 months but it has finally happened, I’m on the road in my 22 foot RV.
I have everything I own in this small space, between gifting, selling, and a few items with my sister this is all I have left, probably more than I need. I’m super downsized! It helps that I don’t get attached to stuff. Now I have think about what comes next.
So far I only have planned to go to VA to visit family. While there I want to correct, clean, paint and fix everything that doesn’t function as it should before I leave again for unknown places,
I’d love to stay on the west coast where there are so many public lands that allow boondoggling.
I’m in Arkansas staying in Ron Coleman’s Mine and I ‘m going to dig for crystals and maybe take a zip ride over the mine in the morning.to get here it took a whole tank of gas to get here but I put my trust in google maps to get me here, ( though I think I saw the same place several times!) I hoped it would be worth the gas money.
I’ve only traveled 284 miles of the 1300 miles to Fredericksburg VA,
I think I fried my inverter, it shouted a fierce screeching noise.
What to do?
Last week I took my RV to RV Specialists in Plano TX to finally find out why the dark water tank lever wouldn’t open to be emptied.
It took 4 hours at 145.00/hr at a RV center in Plano TX to fix. $750.00
On the one hand I was real worried that it would be found un-fixable and then what would I do. on the other hand I had no choice but to fix it cost what it may.
A few days later I stopped at the same RV specialists to ask how to light my refrigerator because I had not been able to get it working.
The “boss” stormed out of his office and said I could have 10 minutes with a specialist.
I admit, I had ugly thoughts about this man, my RV was not welcome because it was a humble RV, nothing like those on the lot and he didn’t want to be bothered by me or my RV.
The tech was great and solved my dilemma. It was a simple thing as I suspected but propane scares me and I wanted to be sure I did it right.
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