30 days! (Not that we're counting)

Truth: Planning a 2 month trip takes a lot of time....and leaves very little time for blogging about it.

What we have been up to since November/December:

• November: Bought a 2013 30ft RV trailer (ahh!)
• December: Researched and laid out a calendar of where we will be and when.
• Early January - May: Worked on reserving campsites
• March - April: Prepared the camper for the trip
• April: Went on our first camping trip with the camper (trial run close to home) 
• May: Leaving for our second camping trip two hours away this weekend (getting used to pulling the camper a longer distance)

Other things that we needed (or will need) to address due to the length of our trip...This is not sexy stuff folks. It is just a very practical list of things to remember.

• Set up bills on auto recurring payments (not all of them were set up this way...I know, we live in the dark ages.) 
• Find a sitter for my son's little pet corn snake (Maisey cannot come along)
• Stop mail for 30 days....then stop again for another 30 days. Find someone to pick up the mail after the first 30 days. 
• Wrap up projects at work. Yikes!
• Hire someone to mow the lawn (and pray for a drought so they don't have to mow much),
• Fill prescriptions (we only have one among the 5 of us, but still...)
• Make sure the kids have enough underwear for 2 weeks. Hey, I'm on vacation, so I make no promises on the frequency of "feeling" like doing laundry. We will be lucky if the mood strikes and a laundry facility is available at the same time. Welcome to camping life!
• Eat all of the food in the house. OY!  (Okay, not all, but the perishables at least.)
• Buy a new swimsuit (mom)....Double OY! And can I point out the conflict with the item above?? Good grief, I am plotting against myself.
• Clean the house. Who wants to come home to a mess after being gone for two months?
• As we are walking out the door: Turn off water; re-program the thermostat
• And about one hundred other little details that I may or may not remember until we get halfway across Nebraska. Doh! 

It's getting close and we are getting very excited!!