It has now been just over two weeks of full-time living in the motorhome. The transition has been effortless for the most part, but there are a few things that we are still getting used to.

The coach came with a combination washer/dryer. In theory it is great to have, but the load size is tiny, it uses a lot of water, and it takes a good long time to get things fully dry. The instruction manual says to take things out when still wet, shake and fold them, then stick back in to finish drying. This seems to keep the wrinkles down, but things like jeans can take more than ninety minutes, and are still damp inside the folds. Not a big deal since we both have plenty of clothes, but is something that we need to get used to:)

I am very comfortable cooking in my little kitchen. I have plenty of cupboard space, and once I remember where I stowed everything, it is not much different cooking in our tiny RV kitchen than any “normal” kitchen. We actually have one convenience that we have not had before–the combination convection oven/microwave. It is a microwave, a convection oven, or it can combine the two for a “fast cooking” option. We have used it as a convection oven, and it seems to work just fine for everything from baked potatoes to bar cookies. I am not sure how or why to use the fast cook setting, so we have not tried that yet.

Currently we have the convenience of using the dishwasher in the house that we are renovating, so the hardest part about washing dishes is carrying them to and from the house. We did purchase a small countertop dishwasher for the coach, but it does not hold very much. That will be a new challenge–fitting all of our dinner dishes into one dishwasher load!! I decided early on that I did not want to eat off of paper plates with plastic silverware just because we were living in an RV. I bought a set of melamine dishes and acrylic cups that have so far worked nicely. We will just have to conserve a little, and not let the dishes pile up–just like the laundry!!

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After two years of preparing and planning, we have now been living full-time in our RV for nine days. We still have several boxes that we have no room to unpack, as well as a few “need to go through” boxes. And we have some frozen food in the freezer of the house we are parked in front of. The transition from a large house freezer, plus a backup in the garage, to a small RV freezer will be tough for us. We like buying in bulk at Costco and the Grocery Outlet, and we both love our desserts!! So we are eating up the extra, and will then know exactly what we can have at any one time.
So what has the first week been like? Very smooth, actually. Since we are parked on our own property, we have been able to let the cats roam around freely. They have gotten used to the motorhome since it has been parked by their house for two years, and they are comfortable in it. After the second day, they were coming in and out of the motorhome just like they did at the house. Obviously they cannot do this everywhere we will be, but we were happy to see that they adapted to the move very quickly.
The way we are parked at this house, we cannot put out the bedroom slide, so it is a bit of a squeeze back there. We installed a row of closet-organizer dressers, and the bed touches them when it is all the way in, so the only way to the closet or the far side of the bed is climbing over it, and I cannot get into the middle dresser drawers, only the top and the bottom. It has not been a big problem, but it has been an inconvenience.
Well, that’s enough for now. More to come on our first few days of full-timing!!

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Just a quick note to say that the coach is put to bed for the winter. Nothing new going on around here. Hopefully good news on the whole “going fulltiming” thing in the near future.

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