Great Day – Dilemmas Solved

 

There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the ship above, “Come up at once.  We are sinking.”

 

Thursday was a good day.  Matter of fact, Thursday was a really good day.  We got to put an end to our two dilemmas. Such is life.

First trailer  --- big quads, little trailer.

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Dilemma #1 - This is our story and we’re sticking with it.  By this time you all knew we had made a fast purchase of a quad trailer.  By the time we loaded quads and drove it a bit, we came to the conclusion it wasn’t a good choice for a long road trip.  Thus, we had to replace it.  It was back to the internet and Craigslist to see what we could find.  One of the biggest requirements we felt was good 15” tires for freeway travel.  We also visited several trailer lots and had come to the conclusion that our best bet just might be to have one made.

It's a two-man job.

I found a trailer online that was exactly what we had thought would be perfect.  However, no response from the seller and by Thursday morning we had decided to move on and possibly have one built.  The manufacturer could do it in less than a week so that would work.  Then, we got a call from the Craigslist seller.  The trailer was still available.   We were out of here (with our RV neighbor, Steve) faster  a speeding bullet.  Okay, I may have been embellishing a tad regarding the speed that we were out of here but I think you get the picture.

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Steve's important job was testing quads out.

This trailer was exactly what we would have had built but by buying this one off Craigslist, we would save $500!!  Now $500 would go a long ways towards our fuel purchase heading south.  The online picture made the trailer look brand new and perfect.  As you might imagine, it wasn’t.  The trailer was filthy and needed a paint refresh but everything else was near perfect.  Plus he even had a spare.  Whoopee!  After the negotiating process (Terry does that while I walk away), we ended up saving close to $700!!  Now we still need a little welding job done to tweak it for two quads but we would have had to do that even if we had a new one built.  For now we’re as happy  as two little clams with our purchase and can get that work done when we get to Arizona since we will only be taking one quad to Arizona and purchasing another one down there.

Easier to load -- without a doubt!

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Dilemma # 2 …. on our way to our son’s house to drop off another trailer in his yard, we got a call from a lady wanting to look at the quad we had for sale AND the trailer as a package deal.  She would meet us there.  Yippee!  She plunked down a $200 non-refundable deposit and we smiled from ear to ear.  It certainly turned into a very good day even though we knew we weren't making money on anything.  There was no way either one of us wanted to count the money we were losing.  Those stats we certainly aren't interested in knowing about.  We're happy campers.

Terry and Steve cleaned up the trailer.  Steve tested all the quads for us and then we were off to dinner at Rib City Cafe!  Oh my lands …… ribs to die for.  They were so good, so wonderful and so many.  There were so many ribs to eat that I needed a doggie bag  …  breakfast I thought.   Wrong!!  Terry ate my leftovers before we even left the restaurant.  Next time he can just order his own ribs.

Here's Carol riding the local pig.  Fabulous food and my new black jeans stretched as I pigged out!

It was a great day ….  down to watching Steve’s slideshow later that evening.  Weather looks good next week and California here we come (we think)!