Fast and furious packing, tiding up the house for the house sitter, trying to get myriad of little details straightened out. We have not left yet, and we are already exhausted!
Food
For those of you who know us, food is a big, big deal. We talk about lunch during breakfast. The first leg of the trip will be a lot of driving with just a few stops so this means a lot of eating in the car. Since my kids descend on food like locust, the food portion takes a lot of planning. Long ago I was nominated the designated "food attendant" and have yet to pass off this dubious role. That means "food in the car coordination" falls to me. In the past I have done this with clumps and bags of food unceremoniously staged around my legs and lap. This time my goal is to create food packs by meal that are pre-assembled and can be served up with minimal effort. At this moment I am feeling oh so proud. I have visions of daintily plucking a bag from a little soft sided cooler, clearing my throat slightly and announcing "snack is served." We will see if that happens, but the freezer does contain breakfast burritos and bean/rice burritos, hummus, and even some pre-cooked oatmeal. I figure if they get hungry enough they will eat the oatmeal. Soon I will be cutting up cheese and dry salami, apples, carrots and broccoli into family snack sized packets. No more will I try to cut the 2 foot long salami with the outback knife! We do have some really yummy treats that we picked up at Trader Joe's that will gone after just a few hours.
The World4UAdventure website
The website has been loaded with a lot of the resources that I wished that I had had on previous trips. It is a work in progress that I hope to populate as we go along. My goal for this time around is to limit the amount of educational materials we had to bring by using the Internet as much as possible.
Stuffed
The truck is stuffed! We have been collecting things for our Airstream for years and are of course trying to take it all to Ohio. My parents are long time RV'ers and have been super helpful giving us the low down on what we need and what we should be thinking about. My Mom keeps mentioning, "do you realize how much room you don't have?" Mark feels everyone needs to bring at least 5 different pairs of shoes (that is 15 pairs of shoes), I feel we need to bring everyone's school materials, guide books, field microscope and 3 laptops. We each have a single suitcase full of clothes. It is the bedding and cooking accouterments that will hopefully gracefully disappear into the trailer once we pick it up.
Right now I have stars in my eyes and am blissfully ignorant. . . though I did watch "RV" with Robin Williams and the "Long, Long Trailer" with Lucille Ball.
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