Yep, Hook On Day. That's what Reed proclaimed as he woke up this morning, and kept repeating all morning, and all afternoon and all evening. He calls trailers Hook Ons so he was pretty excited to get this trailer hooked on Rick's truck and get going on our trip.
Our goal was to leave at 5am but considering we had to clean the house before we left and make everything perfect in case anyone looked at while we were gone, it took a little longer and we were rolling out around 5:20am. The kids were absolute jabber boxes the entire way to Lake Dardanelle, Arkansas. Millie never slept and Reed slept about an hour of our 12 hours of driving. They never even watched a movie, Millie read, wrote in her journal and drew pictures in her sketch book. Reed did some coloring and played with some race cars and was just mostly silly keeping us entertained by talking and signing to us.
We finally made it and I am sitting here in our Hook On as I type this. The kids are sleeping in the bunks, my mom just went to bed and Rick is about ready to head outside to sleep in the hammock.
Our first day of travel was not entirely without incident. We had about a 30 minute stop to fix a panel that nearly blew off while we where driving. It's not on the way it should be but the hinge broke so Rick just screwed it in. And just in case anyone decides to do something like this in the future, here is the first in my series of RV tips...
1) Make sure the refrigerator door is latched tight before you leave or you may end up with your food all over the trailer. This in no way happened to us I just want to throw that out there as a friendly pointer.
2) When it comes to finding state parks, don't rely on your GPS. It may take you 9 miles out of the way to the wrong side of the lake.
1 comment:
you're living in a trailer and you can still blog more than I can. Oh well. Looks like lots of fun! We'll be following your journeys.
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