Day 1 – We’re Off

We’re on our way . . . And we’re only 26 1/2 hours behind schedule.

We had a few setbacks in the last week. Six days before time to leave, our RV rental fell through. Ugh! (and a few other choice words.) After searching every dealer who rents RVs in a 3-hour radius, we discovered there were no rentals available.

Ok, Plan B. Let’s buy a used RV . . . in 2 days.

No problem. I didn’t have anything else to do. I was just trying to leave for a month-long trip.

In order to find what we needed on such short notice, we had to drive all the way to Fletcher, Ohio. That’s 3 1/2 hours from our house. And, we had to do the deal on a Sunday. Thank goodness that Mike at Poor Farmers’s RV agreed to meet us.

I knew that buying an RV on a Sunday was going to be problematic. I tried to pre-plan and account for every variable.

Of course, this meant there were glitches everywhere – from the bank’s new cashier check system not working to the printer in Poor Farmer’s accounting office being cranky.

After four hours of Mike’s time on a Sunday afternoon, we managed to purchase our RV and head toward home. A great big thank you to Mike (and Issac) at Poor Farmers’s RV for their patience.

We spent the next few days in a haze of prepping the vehicle and fixing minor (and major) issues.

Of course, all this unscheduled work on the RV left little time for packing. So, getting out the door was . . . a bit chaotic (to put it mildly).

Today, we’re finally on the road. Nothing in the RV is organized, and I haven’t finished planning the trip, but at least we’re rolling.

After just a few hours of driving, we reached St. Louis – “The Gateway to the West.” Now, our trip in this modern covered wagon can officially begin.

Westward Ho!