After leaving the Land Between the Lakes, we were looking for a place to stop overnight going up the east side of Missouri. We finally decided to keep going to Bowling Green. We stayed at the Cozy C campground there, a nice little family owned campground just outside of town. They had a real nice laundry there, so we decided to stay an extra day and catch up the laundry. We even played a couple of rounds of mini golf there at the campground.
Our next stop was our daughter, Sarah's driveway in Desmoines. We enjoyed a few days there visiting both of our daughters' families there. As much as we were enjoying our time there, we were anxious to get back to Sioux City. We had planned on staying in Sioux City for two weeks and head on up to Bismarck, ND for a month. After much discussion we have decided to stay here longer and clean out our old house and put it on the market. We now have a 40' steel shipping container next to the new house that we are going to load our stuff into until Rebecca and her family find a new place or decide to buy our new house and stay there. Sorting out and packing up a house and garage with a 36 year accumulation is going to take some time. It is interesting to find a few forgotten "treasures". It will probably be the first part of August before we head out to Bismarck, but we will hopefully be much more relaxed with the decisions having been made and the work done.
We have been fixing a few things at the new house and the well driller finished the new well. It is taking longer than they expected for the water to clear up but the well guy thinks it will clear up this week. I am planning to install a 50 amp rv outlet there so we can park there when we are in town. I am leaning toward getting a macerator pump to pump the rv waste tanks through a small hose vs installing a sewer line across the yard for a drain.
Hey Bob! You guys sound like you’re plugging along nicely.
ReplyDeleteSo, a macerator … really? I don’t see many of them out on the road where we have been, but the last guy to dump using a macerator with me right behind him seemed to take forever — moving all that liquid through a much smaller hose. You really think that’s a better solution? I’m just wondering — as i say, I don’t see many people using them. More often it’s a little Roadtrek or something.
So is this ‘new’ house the one you were talking about when you visited us in MS?
Have fun, take care. I’m nursing a sprained ankle (did it on Sunday) so we’re cooling our jets here in Mountain Home ID for the better part of a week until I can use it at least a little.
Peter, the macerator would only be used when parked at the house where the extra time dumping would be preferred over closing up and driving to a dump site every couple of weeks. The other option would be to trench 100' or so and installing a line to the septic system. What's a few extra minutes to us old retired guys?
ReplyDeleteIt is the house we talked about in MS, we put in an offer after we got to Florida and they accepted it.
Hope the ankle clears up, I was taking it easy the last two days after having a wisdom tooth pulled. Now it's back to work moving stuff out of the house. Drive safely and give us a shout if you get near Sioux City on you way across the country.