We've bought our first trailer and are now getting it ready to leave for a six-week trip north to the Yukon. Fay and Ted have organized us with a spreadsheet of mileage, campsites and highlights we've identified during two planning weekends. In the meantime, Bill has bought an extra spare tire and bracket (so that makes two spares as suggested!), a power-tongue jack, sewer hose and fittings and misc other necessities I've never heard of. He will now figure out the furnace, hot water heater and how to lower the awning. I'm figuring out our reading material! I have loads of hard-covers, ebooks, and audio books organized - all fiction set in northern Canada or the Klondike. That should keep us entertained in the Midnight Sun.
Fay and I each have 13 suppers to organize along with packing all other food needed. My lists from our days on the boat were a big help. We will alternate cooking - Fay, Eileen, then a night for leftovers (or peanut butter sandwiches in this trailer).
Bill and I keep meaning to go out one night to sleep in the trailer in our driveway. We need to figure out if one double bed with a triangle cut off the bottom is going to do it for us or if we have to bring the mattress for the bunk bed too! (Ask Bill about our VW camper days....) It is looking more and more like we'll figure out all of the above on the road. Bill is trying to be retired but clients keep popping up! Tuesday is our deadline and Bill's official retirement and our adventure north begins!
Hope you guys are trucking along :-) We'll be thinking of you! hugs xo
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