Maiden Voyage of the MoHo

I haven't updated in a while, and it's about time, don't you think?

We took our maiden voyage in the MoHo - well, our maiden ~overnight~ voyage, that is - up to Wrightwood to visit our friends Greg and Anita and try to sell some excess belongings. You see, over Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend every year, the entire town of Wrightwood becomes a giant yard sale!! No need to advertise - you'll have customers streaming through all day because there will be several yard sales on your street... and every street in town. I think every town should do that. I loved it when I lived there - people save up their stuff for yard sale weekends and it makes it easy to get rid of stuff. As I said earlier, it's not so easy getting rid of stuff from an apartment - no yard to have a sale FROM.

Anita and Greg at the Wrightwood Country Club - I think Anita is trying not to laugh!

It was a success - we drove the beast up the "back way" up Lone Pine Canyon Road - a 10% GRADE!!! We had to since Highway 138 at Highway 2 is closed for construction with very limited access. Or was - they should be done by now. But it did fine - I was impressed. It got VERY hot underneath, however. When I unloaded garage sale items from the "basement" storage underneath, those that were across the drive shaft/transmission area were burning hot. I think if we had kept that up much longer, we may have had a fire... scary thought. I don't think we will encounter too many more 10% grades on our travels, though, so that was the acid test and the MoHo passed.

I've sort of dropped the "Nellie" nickname and just call it the MoHo now. I guess she's Nellie the MoHo... sounds like we should get her a pair of hot pants. Ha!

We spent our first night in her in the Arnold's driveway, and awoke to the sounds of birds and squirrels and I knew then that this trip we are planning is going to be so wonderful. It was a great weekend - made lots of people happy with great deals on stuff I no longer want or need, hung out with good friends, and tested the RV.

We headed out Sunday morning while Greg was practicing music with a friend to play at the Wrightwood Mountain Music Festival - Greg is Red Slate Guitar (and I took that photo of their old dog, Merlin, looking longingly at the hot dog on the grill that he uses on his home page and on his first album, "In Your Dreams"!) :)

We went straight from Wrightwood to Whittier and Devin's Dad's house for a family Labor Day BBQ, and found the power was out! We could have fired up the generator and all sat out in the RV, but it was actually fairly pleasant in his Dad's living room. Devin and I also went swimming, which was wonderful!!! Devin's brother had not seen the RV, and I think he didn't even know we had one yet! So that was kind of fun. The power stayed out the whole time we were there - the city got a temporary generator going after many hours, but then it went out, too. We had a backyard generator that Devin's dad had rented to keep the refrigerator going, though. And we were planning to BBQ anyway, so it all worked out.

Next blog entry will be catching up on MoHo improvements we are working on!