Not that this has anything to do with our RV Life to come, but it is a major thing to happen in our life, a sad thing to happen ~ we had to let go of our sweet little Bridgette yesterday.  Her cancer had her so sick and hurting, she was ready.  Mouth cancer in kitties is so fatal.  Our hearts are broken and full of sadness.

The day started out on a better note though, since we went and signed all of the papers at the dealer for the truck and the Alpha.

We had worked all week on obtaining financing and getting everything we needed.  The two finance companies we went with are Sierra Pacific Federal Credit Union for the truck and Southeast Financial for the Alpha.

Down payment will be made some time this week.  Mike (the dealer) is still working on getting the titles “imported” since the vehicles had been in Canada.  We hope to have the set-up in our driveway this week, or at least by Valentine’s Day!!

We started purging today.  We went through all of our DVDs and picked out a bunch for sale.  We kept a small handful.  Tom has been posting them on eBay.  We also moved some railroad ties out of the way of where we want to park the Alpha.

Tom thought of what we should name our fiver (fifth-wheel).  He said that we should name it “T & L” or “TNL” for “Truck N/& Living” or it could also be for “Tom N/& Lori.  I think it’s a great idea!

We’ve set a 12/24 month timeline for when we actually become full-timers, but I really think that once it (the whole set up) is in our driveway, our motivation will be moving things along even more quickly.

I’m so glad that Tom like the whole idea and has gotten even more excited about it all since we first talked about it and he has been reading so much about it.