Our Arctic Fox is Delivered!

Last week we got a call from Sumner RV informing us our Arctic Fox is here! We'd been told when we ordered it that the delivery was scheduled by the manufacturer, Northwood of La Grande, Oregon, for August but that they often deliver early. But we never expected this early. On Wednesday we went to pick up the new 5th wheeler, and after a two-hour orientation, most of which we will probably not remember, we were ready to hit the road. On the way home we stopped at the YMCA in Gig Harbor, where they recently expanded the parking lot, so have lots of empty room to drive around, and spent half an hour practicing maneuvers and backing the trailer around corners. We then drove home to Prospect Point where we're going to store the trailer at our friend Hobie’s. It took us over an hour to get it into the parking spot which involved two 90-degree turns in short order. Without going into details, let’s just describe it as a “learning experience”for which our practice in a big empty lot did not prepare us for close quarter maneuvering. But we've dug out an old set of walky talky's to minimize the noise pollution we produce in these situations.