Plan A was to take our traveling circus on the road to Louisville, spend my 55th birthday quietly with our friends and then head on into the sunset and spend a few weeks in the Black Hills, takin’ care of business. Plan B was to come back from L’ville, put Keith on a plane and send him out to deal with a few things while I stayed put in IL with the dogs. NOW there’s a Plan C! In this scenario, we come back from L’ville, load camping gear and the dogs into the bigass truck and head West. Once there, we’ll set our bigass slide-in camper onto the bigass truck (it’s currently resting on the smaller truck, in storage out there), take care of business, and then bring the smaller truck back to IL…leaving the bigass camper and truck out there where they belong. Confused yet? LOL! So, that’s where we stand at the moment. We were going to start out yesterday, but after seeing the weather forecast for Louisville, where was heading for a heat index of 105, we opted to wait until Wednesday to leave—weather is supposed to be a lot more comfortable the rest of the week.
Progress is being made on the new RV hauler—there are new pics in the Big Bird album, ya’ll! Its chassis is now 12’ shorter! And we have a red fiberglass sleeper to install behind the cab for the dogs—Keith is calling it the ‘doghouse’…. There’s room under the frame to build a generator box, so the generator he bought 2 years ago can finally get some use! Our son is currently campaigning for a stereo system to install in the cab, but I’ve had to squash that plan! He doesn’t just mount a new receiver in the dash—he wants lots of speakers and and amp and all that jazz! NOT GONNA HAPPEN!
And now you’ve heard “the rest of the story”….
