Finally Tomorrow!!!!

OK, I know that Rainy said in our last blog that our drop dead, absolute day that we are driving away would be today Wednesday, June 16th. Well guess what? We are still here. Yesterday we worked our asses off trying to get ready and by 5:00 p.m. we were wiped out, beat, exhausted. We thought this is no way to start a vacation so we changed our plans to take Wednesday to get completely ready and packed including the camper and the truck so that at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday we would for sure head north.

You got to know that it is a thousand degrees down here in the tropics of Florida. Probably only around 96 degrees or so but with the humidity it feels like you are living in a sauna.

Tuesday I put the hurricane shutters on all the windows and lanai openings, something I had never done before and I can tell you who ever screwed the screws before me must have had the strength of Schwarzenegger. They were in the concrete so tight I had to borrow Matt's super duper power driver drill/screwdriver to even budge them. Once I got past the vertical panels the horizontal ones weren't as hard. Then I had to weed the flower beds, wash down the front entrance and clean the garage all this in this stifling heat.

Rainy cleaned the house, then started packing all the things we will need on the road like can goods, pots and pans, utensils, bedding, dog stuff and clothes. She packed plastic tubs and boxes and labeled each with the contents so we would not have to search every container for the salt shaker.

Today we finished. We did the last minute things like putting everything in the camper and truck bed. Rainy organized all the important banking stuff and made sure all the bills were paid. She also called and made a reservation at our first stop, Jekyll Island, Georgia. We will tell you all about it next time.

Later....