It's almost time! Just waiting for the weather to cooperate and possibly hit the road first thing in the morning. Today it is extremely windy and the temps are dropping down to 1° tonight. Everything is loaded in the motorhome that is not freezable. Everything else is staged by the door, ready to go in the morning.
We slogged our way thru doc appts and lab tests again this morning. We passed! A few medicine changes and we set up other appts for May when we return. But for now, the doc said we are both "Good To Go"!!
The roads home were snowy, wet and a little slushy, but mostly clear. Hopefully by tomorrow they will look a lot better??
We hauled all of the house plants over to my daughter's house. Our granddaughter is going to take care of them for us! They will get bright sunshine and water and loving care while we are gone.
The motorhome is fueled up and ready to go and everything is checked and rechecked. The poor thing is sitting out there in the snow. It has been snowing on and off all day. Steve just keeps going out there and shoveling a new path so we can carry more things out there as we think of them and cross them off our list.
We got our final shipment of things we ordered actually two days earlier than expected. Steve wanted to fly a drone that's easier to use than the one that we borrowed from our grandson. This one even responds to hand motions. I hope he will get me some good footage from aerial views and riding our bikes. It was supposed to arrive on Saturday, then they moved it up to Friday, now they moved it to already on Thursday. Steve is scared to try it in the snow so we will wait until we are in warmer weather and he can try it in a wide open area.
In the meantime, we keep looking out the windows and all we see is snow falling. Hopefully this will be the last snow that we see until we return home in late April. But then again, this is Wisconsin, and you never know...
We turned on the motorhome refrigerator and I went out and packed the freezer full. This Norcold refrigerator in our 2016 Winnebago G is only 6.3 cubic feet.
I'm quite proud of myself that I was able to fit in 22 meals worth of meat for Steve and I. That's 44 servings! Then I was able to get in 40 breakfast meals of meat such as bacon, sausage patties or Canadian bacon slices.
We buy most of our meat from a favorite local meat market. This is stuff we can't get anywhere else while we are on the road. Once we have depleted this supply, we will stock up with average items that we find at grocery stores along the way. But for now, the comfort of having our favorites along, and cooking our own meals will be appreciated. We rarely eat out at restaurants, so it's nice to have our own stuff with us that we like to make.
We are not sure how far we will get on the first day. Usually we travel about 300 miles to the middle of illinois. There's a small town called Wenona that has a Burger King/BP gas station combo just off the interstate. They have five pull through RV sites with full hookups. We will be able to slide into a spot and plug in and use our electric heat in addition to the propane heat overnight. It's only $20. It's not much to speak of for being a beautiful campsite. You can actually hear the people ordering their food from the Burger King drive-thru! But it is a great spot to hole up for the night and have full hookups.
Here's a photo from when we stopped there 2 years ago. We were comfortable and cozy with our extra windshield cover over the front.
We also put pieces of reflectix in all of the windows to help with heat loss. This motorhome only has single pane windows, not like the dual panes we used to have on our last motorhome.
We don't "de-winterize" the water lines or put anything in our fresh or grey water holding tanks for now. We will use the black tank during the middle of the night, and use a jug of RV antifreeze to flush it. Once we get far enough south to find warmer temps, we will begin to use our water system.
Well, it's almost time for dinner. Steve is doing another shoveling at the end of the driveway. The plow keeps piling it up, and it's blocking our ESCAPE ROUTE!!!
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