The handicap Lift

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Ramblings from the roadside.
At the moment we are along side a pretty little lake, (Storrie Lake State park, near Las Vegas, New Mexico), and since we have received a lot of questions from others who are in our medical predicament ... we just thought that we should re-post some information about our lifestyle and the coach that enables us!
Hope that you enjoy it.

Rod and Linda Payne,
..... and now here's Linda!!

Hello, and welcome to a tour of our Fleetwood 37V motorhome We want to show you our handicap lifting system that we use to get into and out of our fulltime home on the road. We have lived in this one for 10 years on a full-time, boon-docking basis. It's a 1999 model that we bought new in 1998. The remodeling took a bit under 6 months and a whole lot of money, ($80,000)!!

My name is Linda and since I was born in 1939, you can see that I'm soon to be 70 years old. Rod and I enjoy our lives on the road. We see a lot of really neat things as we travel around this beautiful USA of ours. Thanks to the ESCAPEES RV club, we are also blessed with more wonderful friends than we can count! Our two sons, 'Fletch' and 'Ken' live in the San Francisco Bay area with their wives, Nancy and Lisa, and with our only two grandsons, Collin and Nicholas. we usually get back to the 'Bay Area' at least once each year. My mother, 'Virge', now 96, (I've got good genes!), and two sisters, Bonnie and Casey also live in the cities by the Bay with their families.

Okay, what's my problem? I've had Multiple Sclerosis for the past twenty nine years, (Rod says FOREVER!), and as you can see, I'm confined to this wheel chair!

Neither I, nor my husband, were looking forward to being also confined to a house for the rest of our lives!! We had always dreamed of traveling in our "Golden Years"!

Enough already, come on now, let my husband show you our system and how we get our freedom, and live almost like "regular" people!