We were trying to sell our trailer for a while. We got very attached to Eddie, but Mt. Rushmore was our last planned attraction in this part of States and it would be great if we didn't have to tow it all the way to Chicago. First of all, it's quite expensive, second of all we didn't have a place to store it, third of all Chicago was not the end of our journey but we didn't need a trailer further on.
We had "For Sale" sticker since Washington and we published an ad on craiglist for Utah, South Dakota and Iowa. And we waited. Someone was even interested in Salt Lake City but we were already in Grand Teton and we didn't feel like going back while they weren't interested enough to go 300 miles. Oh well, at least we got lots of new guests on blog, as we gave a link to pics.
Wyoming and South Dakota are not too generous when it comes to internet and cell phone coverage so after we got to more civilized area we discovered we have a new message on our voice mail. But our phone had T-Mobile card and having only AT&T coverage it didn't want to play the message to us. We tried and we tried and we almost gave up but Paweł suddenly woke up much earlier than usually and managed to play it changing the networks manually.
We called back and we set up a meeting at a parking lot of Cabela's in Rapid City, where we had spent a night. Terry and Karla came in an hour. They looked at Eddie carefully, listened to all we said about its defects (our lives would be so much easier if we weren't so honest...), they bargained a bit and...we sold it!
Probably chief Grand Cherokee helped them make a decision. He did make us angry quite a few times over last months but this time he did well. Terry was looking for a small trailer he could tow with... his Grand Cherokee. His car was a bit older than ours but back then they were making 5.7L engines, not our weak 4.7. His car will be perfect for shorter trips but we do not recommend a trip to Pacific Coast.
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| Karla and Terry |
All we had to do was pack up pur things and take care of formalities. We left a title in Chicago - it was sent a few weeks after registration, we left the next day. We asked our cousin to courier it. It was Sunday, it turned out overnight deliveries (at reasonable price) were possible only on weekdays, and we had to wait till Tuesday.
Imagine: you buy a trailer and you get in a package a Polish family for two days. That's what happened to Terry and Karla. Luckily for us new Eddie's owners turned out to be nicest people ever, not only they let us stay in front of their house but they fed us, they took care of Maciek and they were so hospitable that sometimes we were forgetting that they aren't Boondockers Welcome hosts.
Title came on Tuesday, before noon. We finished cleaning and packing and squeezing everything in the car, we signed the papers, counted money, said goodbye to Terry and Karla and, looking last time at Eddie, we went on. We left some of things we gathered along the way, but the rest had to go in.
We left Chicago on January 17, we said goodbye to Eddie on June 18. We drove with it over 20 000 miles. For 5 months it was our home. It wasn't brand new and its floor under the bed was falling apart but we got used to it. We will miss it…
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