And here we are......

So I decided it is finally time to update our situation on the blog. When we left off, Greg was still working on the RV. Well he ended up staying until Monday evening and then trying to hit the road. At about 100 miles out of Phoenix and 11:00pm he called to tell me he can not make it any further. Aacckkk!! He was in the middle of no where with a 38' long RV and had bad cell phone coverage. So I called the insurance company, who found a tow truck big enough to tow him, but it would take a few hours. They said we were covered to the closest place on their list that would fix us. I believe he arrived at this dinky little town at 4:00am, the only thing in the town was this auto shop and a restaurant. He waited for them to open to find out that they would not touch the RV.
What to do, what to do..... I told Greg to call the old owner up to see if we towed it back to the spot if he would get our money back, I was d.o.n.e! Greg tried but of course the owner said no. So the next thought was to see how much it would cost just to tow it home. I called up the guys that towed him in the middle of the night. They said they felt bad, because they did not think the place that they towed him to would work on the RV, but they have to do what the insurance company says. He did however say that I should call the insurance company again  and tell them what happen and they should tow us to a place that would work on it. I did and we were still covered.
They towed Greg to another small town, called Wickenburg. Greg had been on the phone with a place, while he was waiting for another tow. Come to find out this auto shop would work on it and hold on to the RV until we could afford to come back down and get it. They will just put it in a storage place for us when they are done fixing it. When the owner of the company got there, he wanted to hear the whole story, which blows me away, because most people do not care enough. So this mechanic knew the actual problem right away. (A week later he called to explain exactly what needs to be done and that it would cost $3500).
The new issue was figuring out how to get Greg home. We were considering driving down to get him in the minivan, but that would be 13 hours or so. Greg was talking about taking a bus, but he was no where near a bus pick up. I called rent a car places, but none were in the town he was in. I finally called a taxi service in the town and they would take him to the airport (an hour and a half away) for $80. I got him a ticket out of that town for $250 at 8:00 pm. I would then meet him at the Reno airport at 10:00 pm.
The kids decided to stay home while I went to get Daddy. We missed him so much and were very tired of this whole ordeal. Neither one of us had slept that much, so we were both very tired when we had met at the airport. Greg looked exhausted. It had been 5 days, that he had been working on the RV without sleeping much at all. He ended up getting sick while he was there too.
Now we were all back together as a family, but had no place to live. I decided to call my parents and ask them if we could rent out there 27' trailer while we waited for our RV to be done. I was a mess. I don't usually ask for help. It is usually just the 4 of us, because of the things that have happened in the past. But I was very grateful that they said yes. My dad and mom moved the trailer to the RV Park that we were going to use as our hub, when we are on the west coast. We piled everything into it. Our RV has a ton of storage and an extra 11', so we had to figure out how to put all that extra stuff in. Our cats were freaking out for a few days, meowing and not knowing what to do with themselves or where to sleep.
We have now been in my parent's trailer for a week. When we started on this journey I did NOT see us taking this path at all! This was not part of "the plan".
There has been a total of 5 mechanics (plus Greg) working on the RV. We spent about $2,000 in trying to repair it on our own, plus the cost of getting to Phoenix and back twice, in a three week period. All while needing to move out of our current place. We now have to wait until another one of our short sales go through  (which could be about 3 months or so) before we can go back and get our RV that is sitting in some town in the middle of Arizona.
Because of this little detour in our journey, we have to miss the Life is Good Conference; which we have been to every year. We are very sad for this, because this is when we get to hang out with all of our wonderful friends and meet new friends every year! So we are trying to look at the lighter side of this and see what are we needing to learn right now from this whole situation. We might have a better answer to that in a few months when we could look back on all of this and say that wasn't so bad, especially when we are on the road in our home, going wherever our hearts desire. I am looking forward to that day!