Almost Ready

Four more days until we're on the road. We are very excited, but we are running out of time.

HaRVey the RV is in the shop. He was supposed to be back Friday, but we are waiting for some parts. I am picking him up Monday one way or the other because we have to get him packed. I also am working on a restraint system for Ziggy to keep her out of the cockpit area, so I need some time to install it.

Judy is wrapping up important details (hair, nails, etc.) while I plan our itinerary. When we were in Dallas a couple of weeks ago our GPS was stolen. The good news is that the new one has some features the old one didn't. We can now enter up to 500 waypoints to create a route that stays in the GPS. David (our boss) has set up such a route for the entire trek. I loaded it into the GPS - and there it is! A couple of buttons to press and we just follow the bouncing ball.

I'm sorry to say we have a new stop scheduled on our trip. A dear friend, Ray Stinson, passed away in Charleston, West Virginia after a long bout with cancer. Ray (with his wife, Lisa) was a member of the team of consultants we used for many years at Jeff the Printer. Ray and Lisa became friends as well as consultants. We will miss Ray; he was one of the good guys. Fortunately his memorial service is scheduled such that we can attend and only throw off our schedule by a recoverable amount of time.