Final preparations....

 7:45 am - Monday - January 31st - Newell House, AZ - 40° F, 55% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the northeast.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 69° F.  On this date in 2012 we moved our Newell to a water front site at Sunset Isle RV Park in Cedar Key, FL.....↴

.....and on this date in 2012 we departed Rancho Jurupa Regional Park to begin our nomadic journey....first stop was an Escapee park near Temecula, CA where we had our solar panels installed.....↴

Mike Sylvester (The RV Guy) running cable for our new solar system

Sunday, the 10 year anniversary of our nomadic travels, I began to get ready to move the Newell into Newell House where, over the next few days, I will install the new Koni adjustable shocks, and the Firestone airbags I've written about previously.  I have no illusions about the difficulty factor of what I  am attempting to do largely by myself.  I would never have attempted this on my own a few years ago, and I'm even wondering about the wisdom of attempting this now, but I've been here before.  Back in February of 2012, our first month on the road, we pulled into the backyard of TLE's sister's (Phyllis) home near Tyler, TX as the gear driven water pump on the big Detroit Diesel 6v92 failed, and began dumping gallons of coolant on the East Texas earth.  With my friend Tom's help we located a replacement water pump on eBay, and I ordered it.  Ironically, it was coming from SoCal, where we had just left a few weeks prior.  At the time I was certain this was way over my head, but with the advice of Tom, Steve, and Richard (fellow Newell owners) I got it done.  Over the intervening 10 years I've taken on numerous tasks (installed a new refrigerator, installed a tankless water heater, installed a digital tachometer, installed LED headlights, removed and replaced a bad coolant line on the side of the road, removed and replaced our shaft driven alternator, etc.), and completed them successfully.  With each accomplishment my confidence has grown, and now I find myself about to remove and replace part of the suspension system on a 15 ton motorcoach.

Our black tank had reached 'full status' once again Sunday so while TLE went into town to shop, I dumped the tank, and topped off our fresh water tank.  We will not have city water in Newell House so I wanted to be sure we had more than enough.  I know, we should only be inside for a few days, but you never know what might happen to extend our stay in there.  We will have access to one of the several 50 amp plugs inside Newell House, and Tom's man cave  has a full bathroom with a shower we will use to keep from filling our holding tanks too quickly.

Monday morning we'll disconnect our utilities, and move the Newell inside Newell House where we'll set up for 3-4 days of heavy duty labor on my part.  I'll have access to Tom's large inventory of every shop tool imaginable to mankind to complete the task, and the support of Tom and TLE.  So, get ready, here we go!

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