The Big One Begins! "Lurch forth!" for real this time
...and our first day out is a sweet start
Approximately eight months after we were singed by the Lukens Lake fire in Yosemite, Mike and I were finally ready to hit the road for the extended trip we’d been calling The Big One.
We rented our house out to a nice couple building their home in our area, and planned to travel in the trailer for the next four to six months, criss-crossing the entire United States from coast to coast.
It was an ambitious plan, but as Mike said: “if not now, when?”
Packing up and leaving the house involved a new level of cleaning and sorting as short term renters were coming in and using everything, including our linens and kitchen items. Our personal things had to be packed, moved to storage, and locked up.
Additionally, long term type things had to be done to the trailer. We bought a wi-fi booster system with an antenna so I could monitor my business from the road. We got a postal forwarding service set up to deal with our mail. We alerted our …
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