Georgia to New Mexico - Part 1

It has been a good while since we have hooked up and moved our cabin on wheels.  We landed in the North Georgia area in September of 2016 to help our kids move to a new house, took on a volunteer job with the Corps of Engineers that quickly morphed into a contract job that lasted until the end of October 2017.  After the contract ended we moved back to the volunteer group for the Corps where we stayed until now, April 2018.  Each of those changes involved a move but they were all accomplished in about an hour of driving.  Breaking down and setting up took longer than the drive.

Now we are up for a 1,300 mile drive through six states, one of which we'll spend two days getting across, Texas.  Our destination is Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.  We'll be parked for the next three months inside the refuge on one of four RV pads built specifically for their volunteers.  The nearest town, Roswell, is about seven miles away.

But first we have to get organized for travel.  It is amazing how all your "stuff" gets spread out and rearrange while parked for months at a time.  For us it is a good day's chore to get everything in its travel mode place.

Packing Day

Our grand daughter came out to help us with the pre-hitching chores.  Although she was more interested in getting stuff out to play with rather than putting things away.  That's John leaning into the basement.  All the things have to go in a certain location and a certain order or it won't all fit.  It is a little like putting a puzzle together every time we move.

As mentioned in the previous post, the weather has been a little hinky around here this year.  That has been pretty much true for everybody east of the Mississippi.  We've been watching the forecasts for our route that will primarily be west bound on Interstate 20 and it looks like we are timed to pass between storms.  But weather forecast accuracy is a pretty dicey thing, we're keeping our fingers crossed that we can dodge the worst of it (hail & tornadoes).