At least that is what your gonna think! Just let me say we have researched this long and hard.

First things first. It seems we have bought one heck of a big fifth wheel toy hauler. It has 3 axles and is just shy of 42 feet long. That means that an F-450 truck just won't cut it and neither will most other trucks in the same class. What we need is a commercial truck. How insane is that?

We finally found one in our price range and it will do the job like no other.



Hopefully we can run up to Vegas next Wednesday or sooner to get it. The owner *said* he would hold it for us and I hope he does.

Here is one of the cool parts too. It has 5 leather captains chairs in the cab and since there are 5 of us it will work out perfectly. I am not too keen on the green but hey, we all have to make sacrifices lol.



So, when it is all said and done this is what we will look like towing our vehicle down the road. I hope there is enough room for us in those RV parks lol


Now to answer all your burning questions.... No, you do not need a CDL to drive one of these truck. Why you ask? Ok, maybe you could care less but you came here to learn right? This particular truck started out as a 2 axle semi tracker but it has since been cut down to a single axle and converted to something that will tow an RV. Single axle means you do not need a CDL, provided the truck does not weigh more then 26,000 lbs.

Now a tid bit about me. I used to have a CDL (I dropped it when I got my AZ license). Anyway I have driven a semi with a 53 foot trailer across this country over every mountain range in the U.S. However I will probably let dh do all the driving of our fifth wheel but if push come to shove I can drive it. And I should say it was fun as heck driving a semi. I loved being the biggest thing on the road. Of course I hating the parking part of it and ultimately that is why I don't do it any more.


P.S. I got a molar pulled the other day. My face is swollen and I am still in pain and on meds etc... So if I sound a little out of it, please forgive me. And the really fun part is, in less then 2 weeks I get to go get another molar pulled on the opposite side of my mouth.

P.S.S. Have I mentioned lately we leave AZ in less then a month and I haven't even started going through anything in the house yet to get ready for this move? *JUST SHOOT ME!!!*

I could rant about my dental issues enough to write a freaking book. I have dreadful teeth. They look great to the naked eye. They are nice and straight and I have a very pretty smile (so I have been told a thousand times)

But get to the nitty gritty of my teeth and they suck. And they have and will continue to suck every dollar from my bank account. I mean certain dental conditions can cause heart disease and what not, but there isn't a dentist alive that will take payments. Whatever. But that really isn't my rant for today. at least not directly....

I have 2 teeth that have major issues. One is totally broken in half and now needs a root canal. There is not enough left of the tooth to be able to put a cap on so I would need a bridge (only 2x as expensive).

The other one had a root canal and cap put on it back when I was in high school. Now I did not know that root canals that were done over 20+ years ago weren't made, or rarely lasted forever. I thought that once it was done, it was done. Yeah, not so. This one get infected and needs a "retreat", basically a second root canal (as if the first one wasn't bad enough). Did I fail to mention that the cap on that tooth just fell out tonight??

But I did not have the $1000 for that retreat. Which I found out I needed a year and a half ago. Instead I spent $2000 on a bridge that was needed for another tooth that had also broke in two (give me a break).

So, now it boils down to this. I get to pay $300 (great price) to get two teeth EXTRACTED! (not so great). Ohhh, and the best part? They are both molars, on the bottom and one on each side (see diagram below)


And they will do them at the same time. Well hell, that's one way to loose a few pounds lol. It is funny, to look at that diagram. It looks like there are still a lot of teeth on the bottom for chewing. But when you try to chew without using your molars it just doesn't work that well. I know because I have been trying. The broke one hurts if anything touches it, hence the need for the root canal. And the other one I was trying to avoid since the cap was getting looser all the time (that didn't work huh?)

I have found that pretty teeth does not mean healthy teeth, no matter how much you brush and floss. It is in my genes because I have the same teeth as my mom. Thanks mom, love you tooooooo.......