Well, as my ID states, I'm Ellen and I'm in Oregon. I'm so excited because soon I'll be moving into my 1979 Winnebago with my daughter and grand-daughter. I'm 67, disabled and I've raised four kids as a single parent, plus two grandchildren as a widow. The youngest just turned 18 and now it's my time to do whatever awaits me for the rest of my life. <br><br>When my daughter and I were younger (her 10 and me 39) we lived in a converted school bus. That gets into one's blood and I'd have lived that way from then on if I could. As it happened, though, I married a man who thought roughing it was KOA with cable TV so I went back to house living for years. Now I'm thrilled to get wheels under me again. I can't wait!<br><br>My hobbies are oil painting, writing, and doing Native American style beadwork and crafts. I do mostly work on a bead loom and have looms of a lot of sizes and kinds. When I was downsizing for the motorhome, I kept more beads, furs, hides, bones and art supplies than anything else. I have very few other things except for a small library of leatherbound classic books and the complete works of Steinbeck. My clothes and toiletries would fit into a backpack with room to spare.<br><br>I look forward to many happy times getting to know people on this forum.<br><br>Oh, I came back to add something sort of humorous. Back when my husband was alive we bought a used Class C and it had headers on it. It was a little embarrassing, to tell the truth. So today when I went to take possession of the Winnebago, I wasn't really surprised to hear it----yep, headers again. <img src="/images/boards/smilies/rolleyes.gif" class="emoticon bbc_img"> Any guys out there want to tell my why headers on a motorhome engine is a good idea? I'm sure there must be one. It's a Dodge 440 and I think he said a hemi engine. I got the motorhome from my ex-husband who is a mechanic but I forgot what headers do. He bought it that way himself.
