Trying to catch up to get current! Plugging away!!! Todays installment is from Sept 02!
We got the RV packed, upgrades done that I had time to do, done! (That's not to say I don't have others planned, more on that in other postings).
We left home on Sept 2nd around 2:30 on a rainy afternoon. In typical Babcock fashion, 2 miles down the road, we went 360 degrees around a roundabout and came back for something we forgot. After that, the first leg our trek to Chicago (Wheaton IL) took us thru Rochester, down to La Crosse and down to the "Last Ride Ranch" on the edge of the small town of Westby, WI. This was on my "Boondockers Welcome" app that I signed up for. It's basically other RV'ers that open an area on their property for other RV'er to send one to two nights then move on. We plan on using this often on our journey! We got there a little late, around 7ish, the owner had gone home and couldn't be reached. In our hurry to get on the road it hadn't occurred to us to let him know what our ETA was. I backed into the spot you'll see below, I was hoping there would be no issue as we were pooped from all our house prep work!
We went to put the slide outs out, and one had NO POWER!! Grrrr! Oh well, deal with it in Wheaton, thank goodness it was wasn't when we were trying to bring it in!!
We woke up, after a peaceful night's sleep, Friday morning watching horses out the back window as we drank our coffee and tea (see below). I had email communication with the owner, turns out he had company over and he turned his phone off, what a concept!
It was still raining when we lifted jacks and got on the road!!
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Leaving the house on our adventure! Fully loaded!!
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