Cyndee's doctor visit was today and all the news was good. We have been given the green light to travel so we will be pulling out of Georgia first thing in the morning. We have about a 7-hour drive ahead of us that will have us pulling into Natches, Mississippi for a one night layover and then another 5 or 6 six hours of driving the next day to get us to our official domicile in east Texas.
We also got a phone call from the tax assessor's office in regards to the vehicle registrations that I sent in. Despite using exactly the papers they sent me and following the instructions they sent with the forms, it would seem that nothing is right. Our tags will not be waiting on us when we get there. It looks like I will have to spend some quality time at the tax office getting the registrations straightened out.
Putt-Putt is gone. We dropped her off at CarMax immediately after returning from the doctor. Cyndee cried about giving up that car about as bad as she did when we lost one of our beloved huskies.
The rest of the afternoon was spent getting everything ready to travel. I put a few gallons in the fresh water tank, just enough to take showers in the morning and have water to flush the toilet. The water and sewer hoses are all stored, the synthetic grass mat is rolled up and in the back of the truck along with the collapsible ladder and 30 gallon blue tote. The roofs of the slides have been swept clean and will be ready to retract without worrying about debris damaging the seals. The "office" has been disassembled; monitor, docking station, keyboard, mouse, laptop all off the desk/dining table and on the floor with blankets insulating one piece from another.
It has been so long since I last used it, I am having to get the instructions out for the leveling system and refresh my memory on how to work it. If everything works as it is supposed to, it should remember exactly where it was to unhook from the truck and with the push of a button return to that position so that I can hitch up. That will be pretty slick if it works but I had to "reboot" the rig one day by doing a full power-down, including activating the battery disconnect, so I am not sure if the leveling system was able to keep its memory intact without power. We'll see.
Summer arrived today, it is hot and humid. Temps broke 90F for the first time since last summer and the RH is in excess of 80%. It feels like a sauna when you step outside. Tomorrow will be the first test of how well the large refrigerator will do at keeping its cool while motoring down the road in the summer heat. Our former single door fridge would just barely hang in there, this one is twice the size. I think it will be alright but I am anxious for it to prove itself. It will get its chance starting early tomorrow. As soon as I pull the plug on the shore power it will automatically switch over to propane and 12V power. If we get to Natchez and the ice cream is not in a puddle in the bottom of the freezer, then it will be a good day. And if that is all it takes for it to be a good day for us, then we are blessed.
T -1 day until departing Georgia.
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