May 19, 2013

We are about a week and a half from our Departure date!  Trying to cram in last minute visits with our many Wonderful friends, Making sure we have our Meds up to date and prescriptions filled for 6 months.  Giving more instructions to our house sitter, lawn mower guy and neighbors who will be watching our place.  Den has packed the wheel bearings, new seals, adjusted the stuff that needed to be adjusted or checked.  He has already finished the minor things on or inside the 5th wheel itself - Making sure the solar panels are doing their thing, adding any extra tools to his 'basement storage area' that might be needed.  I am a VERY organized person - (some might call it OBSESSED with organization!), so I have been getting canned goods loaded in, all of the dry goods - flour, sugar, spices, pastas, rice- in similar sized containers, and labeled, so they all fit in their spots, and will not be sliding around in cabinets.  Same with cleaning supplies,and  my tools that I keep inside the camper, eliminating duplicates..

Not a very interesting post here, but wanted to post a bit about our background things necessary to be done before a trip of this Distance and time.... We have updated our wills, made preparations to put cable, phone, etc on "vacation mode" and informed our bank of our journey, so that they will not STOP our cards or such when they start getting credit or debit cards being used in Canada and Alaska!  Truck and Camper are scheduled to be detailed this coming week.  On a minor note - I have lined up a "baby sitter" for the few houseplants that I have - usually take them with us when we travel in the states, but thinking they might not be allowed to cross the border into Canada..  If anyone knows better, please let me know!  LOL!  Sure hoping we are getting all of our ducks in a row - this is a FIRST for us, to be gone this long and this far away.

More news when I HAVE some!  Donna