[A/S] Hi from Seattle

["myblueheaven42" <jeepstr42@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.  I have been lurking and posting now and again lately and 
thought I would finally get around to a formal post. I have been sort 
of shy to jump in as you all seem to know one another so well.  
Anyhow. I'm Joan.  I bought a 31' Sovereign almost three years ago 
and keep it at Long Beach Penninsula in Washington State.  I named 
her Kalakala II and we call her the Kali Kabin or just Kali for 
short.  She is my home away from home when I visit my 93 year old mom 
who lives just across the road. Kali is in pretty good shabe for an 
antique.  She needs some cosmetic TLC and a few things are not 
working right now, but all and all she is a snug home at the beach.  
As soon as the rain lets up and gives me a day of clear skys 
andwarmth I need to crawl under her belly and replace the valves for 
opening and closing the black and grey water tanks. They were both 
very stiff and one afternoon I managed to break both of them in one 
swell foop.  :-) She has also developed a seam leak on the port side 
by my bed and the water system leaks under pressure of the well pump 
so I operate the water off of the internal system right now.  I have 
a notion that the seals on the toilet, original Thetford, just gave 
up under the constant pressure of the much more powerful well pump.  
We had quite a flood on Thanksgiving of  2003.  I looked the 
situation over and am not relishing the job.  "Sigh"  Other than that 
and a few cosmetics to the inside she will be very nice.  As it is I 
seem to find lots of excuses for living with things as they are. Art 
projects and photography and reading and bird watching and walking on 
the beach looking for floats always seem to take precedence.  I have 
traveled only twice with her and had the great misfortune to have an 
accident the second time.  Nothing too serious, I rear ended a fellow 
in stop and go traffic when my brakes came undone on one trailer 
wheel.  All that mass really crunched the back of his Subaru, but the 
truck and trailer and all the human bodies were fine.  I think the 
biggest damage was to my confidence.  I haven't had her out since. I 
guess I need to get back in the saddle soon or I will get even more 
afraid.  The insurance agent told me that now that I totaly know how 
to pull a trailer and everything is ship shape I shouldn't be 
afraid.  :-(   Well, that's moi.  I have loved lurking here and 
reading your posts.  You sound like you meet a variety of places 
across the nation.  We intend to take off this summer and try a road 
trip if the price of gas doesn't get too high.  I have all the 
papers for joining the local AirStream club in Seattle.  So maybe I 
will see some of you on the road.

Happy trails  buckaroos.

  Joannie in Seattle  PS  I put a 
picture on the photo site of me clowning at the beach in front of 
Kali.