Moose - Our New to Us Motorhome (Coach)

Kathy here:  just to clarify, we haven't sat around for a year doing NOTHING!  (see Steve's comments below).  We have been volunteering at our Humane Society, and our "at home part-time" business has become almost full time.  At least we're able to work from home or the motorhome... all we need is a phone and computer :)

After selling our Phaeton last year Kathy and I have discussed many a night how much we missed "being on the road."  Our cocktail hour on the back yard patio ( we call it our "round table sessions") revolved around the question, "What can we do now?"  

To the left was our RV trip log in 2008/2009 when we were full-timers.  After sitting around and doing nothing for over a year, an opportunity presented itself to us!  One of my RV friends ( George and his wife Sandy) decided they were going to sell their "coach" which was a 2000 Foretravel M-4010 U320.  It's affectionately known as "Moose" because the paint striping on the front of the RV kinda looks like a "M."

I've been following George's blog for 3 years and I know how well he took care of Moose, so I emailed him and we started talking about buying something we could "part time" in.  Since they were currently in Maine and we were in Jacksonville, I had no idea if the floor plan would accommodate us because our Tiffin had 4 slides and the Foretravel had one - in the living room and no slides in the bedroom.  
We got word that there was a RV exactly like Moose for sale in Tampa, so we took a little road trip to Tampa to look at it.  We absolutely LOVED it!

Moose has had $31,294 in upgrades accomplished since 2008 so even though he's a 2000, he's practically brand new!  

We intend to enjoy Moose on a part time basis (we already full timed it for 2 years and want to keep a place to come home to) and will be chasing that 70F weather whenever we can.  
Our current plans are:

• Head up to New England or the Great Lakes area in July - August 2012 to escape the FL summer heat which we just can't tolerate anymore.
• Head down to the FL keys maybe in Jan/Feb if it gets too cold in Jacksonville!
• Take trips to TN & SC in the fall and spring to visit our kids.
• Take trips to Meridian, MS where Kathy AND STEVE! will volunteer to help a wonderful person take care of dogs that need help.
• And pretty much just take off and do whatever we want when we want!

Life is grand and we're very lucky to be able to enjoy ourselves while we can :)