On Top of It All

I thought driving on the highway in all kinds of weather was how "The Bus" got dirty. I washed the outside of "The Bus" when we arrived here early December, but it got dirty again just parked in one spot here in The Valley for less than four months.


So . . . today was the day to get "On Top of It All"! First I had to gather everything needed to wash the roof of "The Bus" . . . ladder, bucket, long-handled scrub brush, hose, power washer, and chemicals including a little Clorox. Then it was up the ladder carrying all that stuff to get "On Top of It All".

Pick a spot. Wet it down, dunk the brush in the bucket, scrub with the long-handled brush, then rinse with the power washer. Go over the spots which didn't come clean the first time.

Pick another spot. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.


All of this in bright sun with the temperature in the mid-80's. I tried starting early to beat the heat . . . but my 10:00 o'clock in the morning wasn't early enough, it was already hot. When I was a little over half finished, I told Carole that if we had just bought a 26' RV, I would have been done by then . . . but she didn't think that was funny and insisted I wash all 40' of the roof of "The Bus".

After a several hours and more than a little sunburn on the back of my neck, I finished the job . . . and I must admit, the roof looks pretty good. It's white again! Now that I've been "On Top of It All", next I can look forward to washing the sides of "The Bus", but I'll leave that for another day.