This
article is an exercise in presenting a trip in the Roadtrek in a different way and
it is also being written in a different way which I will not reveal until the end.
We are about to undertake a road trek in our Roadtrek. I am going to take you though
this trip with us day by day from preparation to departure to return. I will
present the mundane and not always interesting things involved in a trip in the
Roadtrek. You will get rather the things that happen on some and all trips day by day. Bear with me and
you will learn about what you may also need to do when traveling in your
Roadtrek. As I write this at this moment
the trip has not yet taken place. Each day after it occurs will be noted. Look
upon this as a “Captain’s Log”.
Reservations
were made for this trip one year ago - yes, one year ago as this trip takes
place over the week of Fourth of July. When we were at this campground a year
ago we were advised that if we wanted the same site or any reservation at all for the following year
then we better make it right then. I did decide about a
month before the trip to increase the trip by a day at the beginning. The
campground did have a site but not the site that we had reserved for the rest
of the trip. This was not a problem. We would just move the next day into the
other site. I made the reservation. The destination for this trip is Lancaster, PA where
I have spent the Fourth of July for almost every year for the last 50 or so years.
Lancaster is a
home away from home for me and the Roadtrek makes it even more so. The trip
will last four nights and five days.
Many
look at the Roadtrek and feel that you can just take off at any time- and for
some this is true, but we don't keep it ready to go at a moment’s notice. There
are things in the house that we need with us that we cannot keep duplicated in
the Roadtrek. There are many things that we do have that are always kept in it.
It does take us a bit of time to prepare for a trip.
TRIP
DAY minus 5 Thursday:
The
weather reports for the trip week are not good. As it was this week every day,
next week is to be scattered thunderstorms. So far this week we only saw brief
showers on Monday. Perhaps next week will be the same. In anticipation of
possible rain, Meryl decided to bring some of the bedding items that we had moved
into the house after the last trip into the Roadtrek to avoid having wet
pillows. These were taken out so that they would not be in the way when we did
some work inside the Roadtrek during the month.
We
store the pillows and blankets in large laundry bags between trips. These bags
usually sit on the seat cushions in the back.
TRIP
DAY minus 4 Friday:
I
checked the tire pressure using the dash tire monitor. Front tires are both 60
psi . This is where I like them to be. Rear tires are both 81 psi. The rear
tires should be 80 but the dash monitor can be off by 2 psi so it is close enough.
The tires are good to go.
We
plugged into shore power at the house so that we could turn on the air
conditioner so that Meryl could go inside an make the beds in the heat. It is better to
make the beds before we leave as it takes awhile and it is easier to do this
when you are not tired after a day of travel. Many with the power sofa bed just
set up the bed each night and if using sleep sacks this is easy to do. We make the king bed with full sets of sheets. The bed gets made up and stay made up for the entire trip.
The
weather reports have not changed, but they not having gotten worse is a good
thing. This is reminding me of our main vacation trip last summer where the weather reports were similar.
END OF PART 1. PART 2 NEXT WEEK.
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