The NEW Racy Verna!
After 16 FULL 12 hour days and nights, our beloved Racy Verna is ready for her new home. We sweat and toiled to make her shiny and new and as the photos show, she cleans up pretty good!
It took longer than we expected, (it always takes longer than expected on this Run For One Planet journey, it seems). However, the results were as we’d worked so hard for, a new Racy, inside and out!
Steph scrubbed and cleaned in places you’d never think road grime would land. And her marathon painting sessions are now the stuff of legend and almost as long as her marathon was, running through the hills of Northern OntarioJ. But the end result is a fresh take on Racy’s interior, complete with new screws to keep the window valances up and the daylight in! Thanks to our very best good friend, D Neil (and his wife Lori) for the Sunday drive by, to help in that department.
She’s never looked fresher and more ready for new owners to love her and keep her parked (for longer than 8 hours), so she can give back with a nice, comfy camping experience.
I had the marathon experience of what felt like a double marathon, up hill both ways and the added bonus of driving wind and rain in my face! I was reduced to “REALLY small steps adding up” in order to go inch by inch along Racy’s exterior to remove the glue residual from our sponsor logo’s you all read about in the last blog. It was a “Matt’s having a meltdown” for 6 full days, as I had to literally go no longer than an inch at a time to get all the glue balls off, before moving on to the next inch of her lovely and gluey surface.
The great thing about extreme weather over a year is, logo’s that get baked in the sun after getting soaked from the rain and leave a really sticky mess on the paint and you (me in this case) can’t move on to the fun part, “cut waxing”, until the dirty job of glue removal has been completely complete. And I mean EVERY piece of “booger-like” glue residual. It wasn’t pretty folks, but we had a mission to complete and by golly (can’t believe I just said by golly) we were going to get it done!
So let us know what you think! She’s pretty! And if anyone knows someone who can feel good about an RV named Racy Verna who did the journey of her life. And yes, gave us a “little” grief (to get her fixed and repaired daily for her new owners piece of mind), she received an A-Class bill of interior and exterior health from her doctor. Let them know we even replaced the fridge door and got to the bottom of her “stinky in the heat” bathroom condition.
We’ll miss you Racy and wish you and your new owners, all the best for a looooooooong relationship together.
You took us on the journey of our lives and sheltered us from the masses.