Day 1 - On the Road!
Home to Old Station, California
339 miles, 7.75 hours
Hat Creek Resort and RV Park
We made did it! We left the house! All the preparations and planning are done and the adventure has begun.
We left about two hours later than I had hoped, but when your youngest daughter floods the bathroom taking a bath and you realize how dirty your refrigerator is once all the food is out time has a way of getting away from you.
I was nervous to leave the house and cats for so long but we have amazing people looking after them so I'm not going to worry about it.
Everything went smoothly down the road and all our preparations seemed to pay off! The only thing I thing we forgot, so far, is the extra coffee from the freezer at home. Thankfully we have enough to get us through until we go grocery shopping again.
On our last RV trip we decided the girls would need an RV Chore Chart, much like their chore (routine) charts at home. Lindsay and I came up with this one. We hung it up on the fridge in a plastic sheet protector with a dry erase maker.
A throw back from our previous road trips is the "are we there yet" map. I hadn't really thought about adding this to Fleetwood, but on day 1, it was clear we need it! Each day we will track how many hours until we get to our destination and move Fleetwood down the road.
Unfortunately it wasn't all sunshine and roses. Along the road we noticed a wet spot on the rug and just assumed someone spilled, no big deal. Once we got hooked up however, we had an empty fresh water tank. DJ went to work filling the tank, I turned on the hot water heater and started the dinner. That's when the flood happened!
We quickly located the leak under the dinette bench. A hose coming from the hot water heater was loose. Once we got that fixed we started working on drying things out. The next morning things are still pretty soggy. We might need to make a stop at a car wash to vacuum out some of the water. Replacing the carpet with vinyl floors is on my list of projects I was hoping to do eventually, just not while on the road. Hopefully things will dry out quickly!
