Las Vegas - Vacation and Business Prospects

We are still having fun on vacation. Sure wish we had our trailer and were able to stay longer.
Now we are in Arizona relaxing for a few days. It's been great except for my internet card not working for a few days.
We found some great business prospects at the ASD show in Las Vegas.
We are very excited now to get home and finish the work on the trailer and to get everything sold off so we can start our new journey.

Side Trip to California - Vacation - Las Vegas

Well, We had to call a hault to working on the trailer. One of our kids needed to take a trip to California. So off we go. :0) We wanted to go anyway because my parents live in Arizona so we will be able to visit them and there is a merchandising trade show in Las Vegas. Might as well do it all since we will be out that way. We are stopped off at Arizona right now to spend the night at my parents and then we will head to Los Angeles to drop our daughter off. Then from there we will be going to Las Vegas for the trade show. The trip has gone great so far and the weather has been wonderful. Can't wait to go to Vegas. We haven't been there in several years. Won't be gambling too much. Ha Ha. Just a alot of site seeing. I will post some pictures when we get back. We are trying to find some different merchandise to carry when we start traveling in the trailer. Hope we will be able to find something really interesting. I will let ya know how it goes.

Trailer Repairs

WOW, This really is seeming to take a long time. Of course family things keep coming up so that doesn't make it any faster. And also my husband can't do a whole lot at one time because of his back. We have been out to California to pick up our daughter and then to Arizona from there to visit my parents for a few days. It was a nice trip. Wish we could have taken the trailer, but it is torn down at the moment. And then we have another daughter that seems to have a problem vehicle and we are constantly going to fix her truck at all hours of the day and night. I thought once they moved out we could take a breather and not have to worry about all this. WRONG. Oh well. That's what we are hear for. My husband has done most of the work on the trailer by himself so far. He has completely fixed one corner of the slide out so far. He has done a really good job. It's been a real learning experience. When he gets done we will have to replace the carpet on the slide out. Actually I have been thinking about putting in wood flooring. I think it would look nicer. And we will have to repaint the whole inside. He hade to replace most of the walls on the one side and probably will on the other. That's OK with me though. It will probably make it feel that much more like home. Here is one of the pictures of the rotted wood and floor. And the one wall had to be completaly torn out and redone.

Well, Just think. One down and two more bad spots to go. I don't think they are as bad though.

Well, We are getting ready this time to take off for Las Vegas for a week so we will continue on the trailer when we get back.

Oh No

Well, We didn't have a show this weekend so I decided to go out and work on the trailer. Trying to decorate it and make it feel homey. We are(were) hoping to go to a 3 day sale this next weekend. So I was also loading some things to get ready to take it for the first time. I was checking all storage and new that the benches for the table should be hollow so I could put extra things there. When I took the pads off I noticed the wood had been nailed down. So I enlisted my husbands help and we got the first one loose. Wow what extra storage room we are going to have. The space was huge. So we started on the next one. Had a little trouble with this one but it finally came free. And to our shock the carpet was all black in the corner and so was the wall. Oh my gosh, a leak. We pressed on the floor in the corner and it just completely gave way. The wall was the same way. We sure didn't expect this. This is on the slide out. YUCK. So we got to looking around and when we moved the couch it was the same way in the opposite corner. :( What are we going to do???
Well, The only thing we can do. We have to tear it all out and repair it. We aren't carpenters but boy are we gonna give it a shot. We got our tools and carefully tried to remove the remainders of the bench on the bad side. The back of the bench was so damaged we decided to just tear it out and we will probably put in a table and 4 chairs instead of replacing the bench. Once we got the first part of the wall torn out down to the metal of the outside we notice small holes all along the outside metal. We went outside and notice it on both sides of the slide out.
So now we have to figure out what is going on and if it's corrosion, how to stop it.
We will keep posting as we go and will also add pictures as I get them.

Our first Craft Show

We finally did our first craft show yesterday. We have always done flea markets on and off but forgot how much work it is. Everything went pretty smooth except our tables were too big so there wasn't much room to get into the booth. People didn't seem to like that so they didn't come in. We brought way to much but I guess I would rather have it that way than not enough.

We had great neighbors that shared allot of info.

We really began to worry that we had the wrong stuff or was priced too high because an hour in and we still hadn't sold anything. Finally a sale. Hopefully that would start a trend. Welllll, It really didn't. Sales were really few and far between.

Our neighbors finally shared with us that this was a real slow show and that they probably wouldn't be back. We talked to several other vendors and they said the same thing.

So, It wasn't just us. WHEW I'm glad to here that.

We didn't plan on doing another show for several weeks since we wanted to try and get the house ready for sale but several people told us of one that we needed to try this weekend. They said it should boost our spirits. That it's a better show.

We will think on it.

Home at last, Our BIG Decision

We made it here finally and once we got the trailer level we had absolutely no leaks. We have allot to learn. We didn't even level it right, but for now it will have to do. We've been going through checking things and learning lots as we go.
WE MADE THE BIG DECISION.
We decided to go ahead and sell the house. We called out a realtor and she informed us that we have 2 small leaks that need to be fixed before we would be able to list it at the price we want. Actually we need to just re roof a whole side of the house. We are going to buy the shingles and some relatives are going to come over and help.
In the mean time we have been working our butts off making things to sell at our first craft show on June 13. I hope we are all ready. It's just a one day show so we won't be taking the trailer this time.
We are hoping to have our first yard sale at the house the second weekend in July. wanted it the first weekend but that's the 4th so I don't think that will be good. That means we have lots and lots to do. We have to go through the whole house and pack everything that we are going to keep and price everything else. I am just going to open up the house and let them in.
It's going to be VERY HARD to watch people walk away with what has taken all our lives to accumulate but that is part of what we are deciding to do.
We will be putting our keepers in a climate controlled storage unit. We thought that would be best.

Trip Home

Well we are on our way. Usually I do all the driving but I thought that I would let Randy start out this time since neither of us had ever pulled a fifth wheel. And this thing is sooo big. We hit some bad weather but everything went great. We left at 4 pm and finally decided to stop for the night at 8:30. We stayed in a Wal Mart parking lot. We don't even know where we are.
We didn't have any water so we had to use Wal Mart for the restrooms also. Boy, Let me tell ya. That was a very looooong walk in the morning. We both had to go so bad. It stormed all night and it was very hot and muggy. We didn't know how to work the air so we didn't get much sleep at all. We sweated it out all night. We also didn't know anything about leveling and we left the slide out in so when it rained water was just gushing in through the slide out. We also had a leak at one of the windows.
Did we make a mistake here? It didn't look like it had leaked before but were we wrong????

May 14, We left out early since we couldn't sleep. Hit an awesome Lightning storm. I love harsh weather. I need to find a better camera so I can catch things like that. Mine is really slow. We had a good trip the rest of the way. No problems. when we got home we had to back all the way down our driveway but that was fine. Randy is very good at backing up. We had to do some trimming on one of our trees first but that was fine.
WE ARE FINALLY HOME