Easy First Day

I tried to publish this last night (Friday) but it wouldn't go so am trying again this morning. 


Last night we enjoyed a long, leisurely, hot shower before going to bed. With a 10 gallon hot water tank in the RV we won't have that luxury again for a long time!  

It was a pretty easy first day of our trip - only 130 miles or so. Not as much traffic as we expected for a Friday - hardly any going over "the hill (AKA Donner summit over the Sierra mountains)" and Sacramento traffic was heavy but steady going.  We made good time after a late start.

We had packed most stuff into the RV yesterday which only left meds, toiletries and food for this morning.  Well, there sure seemed to be a lot of food bags being hauled over to the RV this morning!  We left Sparks around 10:30am and got to Vacaville, CA around 2:30pm.  We figure that if we forgot something we can always find a store, but we did forget to pac  ourTilley hiking hats :-(    Will have to figure out some way to get them - too expensive to buy again.  

Rog spent an hour or so de-winterizing, i.e., draining all the antifreeze and putting water in all the lines while I put stuff in their proper place.  One thing about living in 324 square feet - every thing has a place and everything needs to be in its place or it is chaos.  

We then went to my sister's for dinner and had a very nice evening visiting with her, her husband and our nephew who stopped by.  I was surprised with a birthday gift and cheesecake. The amaryllis is going to be a perfect plant for the RV and will bloom about Christmas.  Thanks!!   (Sorry, about the dog peeing on your freshly cleaned carpet, though!)  

Speaking of Maggie - she did well today on the drive but we don't know weather to attribute it to her finally becoming used to the truck or the medication! 

It's late and we still need to put sheets on the bed.   Tomorrow we drive south to Bakersfield, CA and sleep in an orange grove!