In storage

We temporarily stored the coach at Weaver Boat and RV Storage in Cumming, Georgia, 43 miles north of Midtown Atlanta.

Now all we have to do is complete the sale of our business, sell our condominium, and sell, give away, store, or pack up everything we own!.

Our coach visits Midtown Atlanta

Since we had flown to Texas to pick up the coach, we were not towing a car (a "toad"). We needed to bring the coach into Atlanta so we could pick up a car. Glenn then drove the coach to its temporary storage location. Jill followed in the car to drive Glenn back home.

Here is our coach parked on 15th Street, near Peachtree Street, across from the Colony House Condominium in Midtown Atlanta. It was an amazing stroke of good luck to find a parking space for it on a busy Wednesday afternoon! The Christian Science Church, Reading Room and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America National Headquarters are seen in the background.

See this location in Google Maps here.

Tennessee

We left Bowling Green on Saturday and headed to Tennessee to visit friends and former neighbors, Ellen and Bruce Rakes, who entertained us royally in their new home in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. It was also fun entertaining them here at the Countryside Resort in Lebanon, Tennessee.

RV Life On Wheels

The RV Life on Wheels Conferences are held several times a year around the country. LoW is a "boot camp" for prospective and new RV owners. We had attended the conference in Tucson, Arizona in February as "Wannabees" before we bought our coach and we decided that we would take our new (to us) coach from Texas to the conference in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

We were introduced to the other attendees as the "Wannabees" who had just graduated to "Newbies."

LoW includes sessions ranging from RV maintenance, RV insurance, picking a home state, to how to do a blog, just like this one!

The Mississippi River

We left Mr. Olivers on Friday en route to the "Life on Wheels" Conference in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We spent Friday night in Texarkana Texas. On Saturday night, we stayed at the Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park in West Memphis, Arkansas. It is right on the banks of the river and we could watch the river boat and barge traffic going up and down the river right out the front window of our coach.

Mr Olivers RV & Equipment

A month later, we returned to Texas to pick up the coach from Mr. Olivers RV & Equipment.  Mr. Oliver is actually Paul Davis. He got his nickname in the '60's as a used "Oliver" tractor dealer. He bought used Oliver tractors in Iowa and resold them in Texas. As the area around Princeton Texas saw subdivisions and strip malls replace farms, he branched out into selling used coaches and motor homes.

Here he is in his office with his partner, Kathy Fitzgerald.

He still has a couple of Oliver tractors on his lot. For the history of the Oliver tractor, see the Wikipedia article here.

After staying in our coach on their lot for four days of training and inspections, we were ready to hit the road for the first time.