Gypsies In A Caravan

Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Gypsies Have Left Town

It's bitter sweet to leave family and friends but today our adventure begins. We finally got everything ready and pulled out at 3:30. Made it out of the driveway without incident and headed to New Bern KOA to camp with the club (Rex's Camping Club) one more time. I was abit nervous pulling the garage but all went well. My genius husband bought us walkie talkies and they are the ticket. Much easier than cell phones and I can still agitate him with the push of a button! Seriously they are great as we are always in contact concerning directions, traffic, sights etc. It is nice to be following Mark as I can keep an eye on the back of the caravan and if anything goes wrong he will no immediately.

Arrived around 6pm, visited with friends til 10pm and then called it a night.

All is good...

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Final Days Before Take Off

What can I say other than it has been alot of work to get to this point and it's hard to believe that it is finally here. Up to the last minutes before we pulled out we were still giving things away, thanks Greg & Lori for taking the remains, hope that some will be useful. We spent our final days getting the trailer ready (aka-garage).

The bike is up front, kayaks on the side, golf cart, fishing poles, etc.

Put in a shelf up front, then zip tied baskets to it for the helmets, leathers hang from shelf brackets and I wiped out Joann's on parachute buckles for straping everything down.

And of course a spot for the cornhole boards. We call it the garage because it is like almost everybody elses garage...there is no car in it. Once loaded we hooked it up to my truck and went on a test drive to find out if we needed sway bars, yeah, no bars needed, it pulled great! I am just a tad nervous about pulling it but once we get going I'm sure it will be fine.

On sunday the 31st we went boating with Christo, Alida, Analien & Andre and had a great time.

Mark, Alida, Me & Analien

Come on in the water is great

The bathing beauties

Christo & Andre

Thanks for a great time!

My BFF (Tammy) had us over for dinner on the 6th, I have spent many an hour at her house and it is hard to believe I won't be able to just stop on by but I will be back in Feb 2012. I have to take a moment to thank Tammy for buying alot of my stuff and also earning my stuff. She mowed my grass and check on the house while we were away, ran to my house when I had a showing to straightened things up while I was at work and tons of over things. Love you girl. So all I have to do is go to Tammys to visit my stuff. Just a few things that she has...