Friday, 24 April 2009

The Trailer Is Here!
Mood:  celebratory

It was a long trip and my nerves are shot! But we're home and this trailer is awesome.

Here she is! http://good-times.webshots.com/album/569863361yFLROR

Tom, the OWNER of EquiSpirit (how cool is that?), met us at 9am Saturday morning to go over everything with us, making sure we knew the procedures and pointing out all the amazing features built into our EquiBreeze. It truly is the best of both worlds: all the safety and attention to detail as found in the EquiSpirit but in an open-stock combo model that makes it affordable to us "average" folk.

David drove it 1/2 way home from North Carolina....safely navigating the VERY SCARY section of I-20 into and out of Augusta where they took us down to two very narrow lanes. I kept sucking in my breath as if it would suck in the sides of the trailer.

I took over after fueling up and completed the trip...repeating our new Mantra: Wider is Better! (Alas, David learned the hard way and our new trailer is now "broken" in ....no bad damage...just a few dings on the left side and a fender that is less than perfect. Trust me, he felt HORRIBLE. But I reassured him that a) it's a "thing" not a person; b) I still love him; and c) perhaps the Lord was protecting us from a worse situation down the road and we needed that hour to avoid it.) The rest of our trip was blissfully uneventful, although my neck and shoulders were one giant knot of tension.

Now that it's home, I need to practice. One of our co-borders is a police officer who does driver training, so he will be working with us in an empty parking lot, full of cones, so we can learn how to back that baby up and park her properly. We're both good with "forward"...."back" needs work.

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Updated: Friday, 24 April 2009 1:10 PM EDT

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