48 degrees this morning!

We woke to to a beautiful morning with a crisp temp of 48!  Fantastic, I guess fall is starting to seep in out here in the west.  We ran down into Orem, UT yesterday for a PF Chang fix.  We've been looking for some good chinese with no luck so we had a great lunch there.  It's funny driving around in all the traffic and hustle and bustle.  We've been out in the country and only in small towns so long it was quite exciting.  Got a couple errands done, then drove up and around a road called the Alpine Loop.  It goes northeast out of Orem up over a pass and down past Sundance on the way back to Heber City.  Very beautiful.  We drove past a raging wildfire that they were fighting.  Helicopter going back and forth dumping water on it, and this morning we can't see any smoke so maybe they were successful.  

When you move out of a house into an RV, or just downsize for that matter, one of the major challenges you face is stuff, what to do with the stuff??  When you live in a fairly large house you normally just accumulate stuff.  You buy knick-knacks, artwork, pictures, and this and that and always find a place for them.  But when you live in a motorhome you have to stop yourself from accumulating stuff.  Our rule is, if you buy something, then something has to go.  Even with that, at least once a year we need to reevaluate and toss out or sell stuff we don't use.  Room is precious.  And then there is the issue of toys. Toys are a challenge as well.  You obviously can't carry all the toys you would like, so what do you do?  We decided to get rid of the motorcycle, and now carry two bicycles.  We left our kayaks behind in Florida, and have been keeping track of where we would have used them, balancing that against the hassle of carrying them on the Jeep.  We have nice racks for them, but the hatch won't open up very far with the kayaks mounted, so it can be a real pain anytime you need to get in the back of the Jeep.  We have been kicking around the idea of getting a folding boat, a Portabote, along with or instead of the kayaks.  But then that adds the question, do you get a motor, gas or electric, or just row it, then what do you do with the motor, especially if it's gas?  All toys come with a certain amount of hassle factor, but living in a motorhome multiplies it ten fold.  We have seen all kinds of examples of people doing extraordinary things to accommodate their toys.  We've seen double trailers where there is a full sized power boat carried ABOVE a vehicle, motorcycles carried on a rack front and back on motorhomes, we've seeen ATV's in the backs of pickups towed by a motorhome, and even mounted on a rack behind a motorhome, we've seen racks on pickup trucks that have a canoe, two kayaks, and two bikes mounted!  All kind of things, some people look like the Clampetts going down the road, and we don't want to get that bad.  So the contemplation goes on.