Bounder Back Home

Thank you very much to all who left comments wishing Dave a happy birthday.  He was touched that so many of you cared enough to leave a comment.  He won’t get that kind of attention for another whole year, so he is savoring it. 

Our motorhome is finally home from the repair shop.  We took it Junction City on August 31, and today, September 21, we went to pick it up.  The crack under the bedroom slide is all fixed, and a leak from the living room slide is fixed, we hope. 

Now we need to plan a trip for a night or two just to test things out.  We took a lot of things out of the motorhome, including food, while it was being worked on, so now we get to load everything back.  The trip of a night or two will be to test whether we’ve put back everything that we need for a trip. 

We decided not to buy an extended warranty on this motorhome, and our one-year warranty will be up on October 12.  We want to make sure there are no more problems that need to be fixed before that date.  The repair work on the crack comes with a new 1-year warranty, but hopefully we won’t need to get that repaired again.

All is well when our Bounder is back in its spot behind our house, or even better, out on the road with us inside!

Empty Spot

Our motorhome parked at home It’s a sad day.  Our motorhome is not in its usual spot in our back yard.  We took it to Camping World this morning for some warranty work.  The main issue is a problem with the bedroom slide.  A part needs to be replaced and since the part needs to be ordered, it could take up to ten days for the part to arrive .  A few other minor things need to be worked on, also.

Waiting to be checked in for service at Camping World

Our next RV trip is planned for August 20, so we hope the motorhome will be ready by then.  In the meantime, we are thinking about taking the car and staying in a motel (horrors!) and possibly going to the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) conference in Redmond, Oregon. 

I didn’t even know that FMCA was holding their convention in Redmond this year.  Roberta and Wayne of Our RV Travels mentioned in their blog that they are going to the convention and planning to attend one of the Picasa seminars taught by Chris and Jim Guld of Geeks on Tour.  Roberta introduced me to Geeks on Tour and I recently joined their site, which offers video tutorials on many topics, not just Picasa.

We can’t go for the whole conference (August 11-14) so we have see if it makes sense to pay the high daily rate ($65 each per day for non-members but includes seminars and entertainment) as well as making the four hour drive each way from home, and besides all that, paying to stay in Redmond/Bend.  Have any of you ever attended one of the FMCA conferences?

The temporarily empty spot in our back yard.  How sad!

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Bounder Floorplan

Regarding our upcoming 6-week motorhome trip, some people have expressed an interest in what the inside of our Bounder is like.  This model, the Bounder 35E, is a bit different than other Bounders in that it has a spacious shower and an additional sink in the rear of the motorhome.  The dotted lines in the diagram are all cupboards.  My favorite feature is the washer/dryer in the kitchen, which makes the kitchen counter space longer as well as having the ability to wash our clothes.  Unlike the floorplan pictured, we have a larger refrigerator with a pantry only on the right side of the fridge.