Cool night, dipping down to about 3C, then a nice clear morning climbing to the mid-teens. After breakfast I started on disassembling all the electronics and satellite stuff. I couldn’t possibly do that last night as someone wanted Grey’s Antimony to be recorded!!
Once that was done, I left Lyn clearing up the inside, and I went outside to stow the water hose and electric chord. Once that was done the hot water tank was drained. Now it was time to raise the stabiliser jacks at the back and put the wood support chocks away. Meanwhile Lyn had finished inside and the kitchen and living room sliders were motored in. All (we thought) that was left was to connect up the trailer.
I backed in the truck and got the trailer hitched up, then raised the front legs. Lyn checked around the trailer to make sure nothing was left, and then did a check of the trailer lights. As I started to pull off our site Lyn suddenly yelled for me to stop. Turns out we had left the bedroom slider out, and neither of us had noticed.
Once that little faux pas was sorted out, I checked the brake controller was working, this is a little box that recognises when the truck brakes are applied and applies a proportional amount of braking to the trailer wheels.
All ready to go so off we went. We made a quick stop at the office to say good by to Madonna, the office boss, and then hit the interstate.
I must admit I do like the American road system, less than a mile to the interstate when we left, and less than a mile off the interstate for our overnight stop. We headed south on I95, looped around Jacksonville Florida on the I295 then joined the I10 to Tallahassee for the night stop.
About 20 miles out of Tallahassee we got our next reminder that check-lists have their used. For some reason I suddenly realised that I hadn’t connected the breakaway cable. This is a small metal cable that comes from the trailer and needs to be secured to the truck. The purpose of this is to automatically apply the trailer brakes should the truck and the trailer part company.
This blog is late because the internet at the hotel is dead! Lyn is more upset about the lack of internet than I am. Oh how times have changed.