Saturday, June 13, 2009

pre-trip preparations

Today is Saturday, and Terry and I are finishing business tasks and starting the final preparations for driving the RV to Iowa. My parents, Maury and Evedna, are happily waiting to get their RV delivered to the Iowa farm so they can use it this summer.

It sits in front of our house in Henderson right now.



Our test drive to Cedar City, Utah, gave us a chance to try out all the systems and sample the RV life. Typical of us, we made a list of things to bring, and stuff that needed fixing, and we are now busy crossing items off the list and getting excited to leave.

Terry will write about our Cedar City shakedown after we get going on Monday. It's not every day you get to see dinosaur footprints!

Here's a summary of our Iowa trip:
Monday (6-15) to Salt Lake City to visit Terry's sister.
Tuesday (6-16)to Yellowstone. We'll stay there three days.
Saturday (6-20), arrive in the Badlands, South Dakota
Monday evening (6-22) we will be in Minneapolis to visit friends and family.
Tuesday evening (6-23) we will be in Duluth to visit family, and stay there all day Wednesday.
Thursday (6-25) we will drive to Derby, Iowa, with a stop in Albert Lea, my birth place.