I said I would give you (specifically Meteor Blades, and you do not break a promise to a man who makes knives out of meteorites) an update so here’s what’s going on with us as of early August 10, 2019.
We bought a 1966 Ideal 19 foot travel trailer from the impound yard for the Lancaster police department. If anyone has the owner’s manual for this year and model let me know, because my Google-fu isn’t bad and I have been unable to locate one and searches for “ideal vintage trailer” have been surprisingly unhelpful.
You learn a lot from the belongings of a home’s previous owner and if you are reading this, former owner, I apologize for thinking of you as a cannibal serial killer pedophile. We have removed all kinds of junk including a bench grinder, a 200 pound large screen TV that was not functional even before it fell out, and the brakes on the right-hand side after they locked up with the locked-up brakes on the left on the to-do list. But the electrical system works, the refrigerator is clean and works, the AC turns on and blows cool air, the running lights are dim but work, and the roof keeps the rain off.
We made it up to the p00ka’s grandmother’s house in Capitola and are trying to effect repairs and cleaning. If any Kossacks in the area want a bench grinder, various random and quite possibly functional BMW parts or home theater equipment, or a staggering selection of what I’m sure were once very fine tools I can hook you up.
We are intending on heading back south once this is over, although it looks like the land is falling through because of fucking course it is.
That is what your generous aid has provided us, and I and my family are grateful for it. Whether we can get a piece of land to set up on or we wind up in extended-stay RV camps, this beats the hell out of a tent.
I will post pictures of Freehold Mobile II when we get it looking livable, but so far it’s already travelled further than Freehold Mobile I did before it burned down.