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Cabinet Trim
While working on The Void, my existing RV that I am still living in while I remodel The Transit, I discovered that there are several building and decor elements that do not seem to be available through public consumer means. In other words, they’re things that are made for the manufacturing process but not something an individual can buy at the local home store. One of those elements is a plastic strip that is adhered to the edge of a cabinet to “finish” the edge rather than having a raw edge, particularly when that cabinet or furnishing is made from… read more…
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The Brakes
“How on earth did she get that thing over here without killing herself?!” asked the RV repair guy. “Um, she’s a really good driver?” Franklin told him. We knew the brakes had problems. The mechanic who did the inspection said that there was air in the brake lines and that a caliper was bad. The guy who sold the RV to us said that he knew there was air in the brake lines but he could bleed them for us and everything would be fine. The brakes were virtually nil when we test drove the RV but when we picked… read more…
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First Look
Franklin and I had looked at a handful of RVs before finding this one for sale on Facebook Marketplace. All of them were older because the budget is very small, but they all looked like … well, like RVs. Any Boomers or GenXers who ever had a motorhome back in the 1970s, ’80s, or ’90s – whatever you remember from that era, that’s what we saw. We saw lots of brown wood paneling. We saw lots of brown carpeting. We saw lots of seafoam green upholstery. We saw lots of formica countertops. And all of that was fine, because I… read more…
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Electrical Misadventures
I tasked Franklin with designing and setting up the electrical system, which involved converting the battery system to lithium-ion and putting solar panels in the mix. It also, apparently, required rewiring basically any and all plugs and electrical devices going to or from or into both the new RV and my old RV (which I am currently living in) as well as installing surge protectors and circuit breakers in various places. I’m doing all of the cosmetic and carpentry work so I off-loaded the electrical labor to Franklin who is better at it than I am (even counting in my… read more…
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The Deal (pt. 4)
July 7th, 2025 – was this the day? Would I be driving home a new-to-me RV, or would I show up and find an abandoned vehicle graveyard, minus the one vehicle I was interested in, and down several thousand dollars? Once more, Franklin and I woke up early (to us) and drove, yet again, across the state. I pulled into Schrodinger’s Fae Graveyard, and as I came around the corner through the gate, I breathed a sigh of relief to see the now-familiar giant white box sitting on the asphalt near the office (that I had never once noticed on… read more…
