Miles and Mishaps...

We’ve been on the road now for quite some time and the days are starting to blur together. The rig is getting easier to drive, although it is a bit hairy in high winds. We have our routine pretty much worked out for these past few days. We both get up around 0600 and I put on some water for coffee and take care of unplugging the water hose and electrical cord. I also take the dog for a short walk. Janelle meanwhile finishes making the coffee and tidys up a little inside to get ready to roll. Usually, we can be ready to head out within about 20 minutes of getting up. Not bad. With the kids still sleeping we can usually get in a few sold hours of driving before we stop for a quick potty break and some brekfast for the kids. After that we can make pretty good time until we stop for gas and lunch. Then another couple hours or so to our campground for the night. We have planned the whole trip out so that we are getting to our camps around 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon so the kids have plenty of time to play, swim, fish, or whatever else they have at the particular place we are staying. This has been working well because it also gives Janelle and I plenty of time to clean up a little bit, do laundry, cook dinner, write this blog, or whatever else we might want to do.

Now this is not to say that the trip has been without hiccups. Just the other day in Niagara Falls we had a near catastrophe in fact. After dinner I took Lily and Meg over to the pool for a swim. Suddenly, Cate comes running up to me yelling “Daddy! Come quick, something is wrong with the RV!” Naturally, I figure she is being dramatic. “What’s wrong?” I say. “The shower is all backed up and Mommy said she needs you to come quick! I’m going swimming” she says. Gee, thanks for the help. So I run over to the rig with visions of Randy Quaid in National Lampoon’s Vacation in my head only to find Janelle calmly walking out of the RV smiling and giving me that “Don’t worry” look. Turns out that doing the dishes from dinner put the grey water drain tank over the edge. Since the shower is the lowest point in the plumbing system that drains into that tank, it began to fill up. Not that big a deal really, except that all our dirty laundry was in the shower. We were not planning on doing that for another day or so. Oh well, off to the laund-o-mat we go (most campgrounds have a luandry on site). Now why am I tellingyou all this you may ask? Well, every cloud has a silver lining: when we pulled our clothes out of the dryer we found our missing set of keys for the RV! WooHoo!