Prepping...

 

Does that make me a "prepper"... as in: "I'm a prepper, he's a prepper, she's a prepper, wouldn't you like to be a prepper, too?"  Hmmm - isn't that from the Dr Pepper commercial?  Close, but no cigar.

Today, we are "prepping" to get out of here.  We brought the RoadTrek in from storage; put the Stowaway2 cargo carrier on it before bringing it in.  We are looking to do a "short-ish" outing to see how Stella does as a travel cat.  We know Murphy settles in after a couple hours from initial departure.  The RT is now in the driveway, so I plan to introduce Stella to it in stages...

 

That may be easier said than done; Stella has no interest in being outside.  She isn't a fan of being on a leash.  But, she has been adaptable for other things; so, that's the hope.

Out at the storage slip, we grabbed a few things out of the cargo trailer and put them into the Stowaway2; after attaching it to the hitch on the van.  And once we got home, the first thing we did was take the Stowaway2 off the van and roll it into the garage... we need to see what will go in there and how we will load it.  That cargo carrier looks huge on the back of the van.  Putting a few things into it at storage made it feel like it was filling right up.  The plan: put stuff in there that we will use when staying in an RV park; 30 amp electric cord, fresh water hose, water pressure reducer, water filter, cable (when a park has cable TV), leveling ramps, patio chairs, patio mat - these are all things that we store inside the van.  Moving that stuff to the cargo carrier will give us that extra space inside for clothes and stuff.  And, with 2 cats, we are going to need space for more "cat stuff" inside.

Before we left this morning, we moved bikes and stuff around inside the garage to make room for the cargo pod...

 That's the cargo carrier in the foreground.  It needed to come off the RoadTrek while it is in the driveway - the van just fits for length.  We'll have the next few days to decide what goes with us, what will be in the van, and what will go in the cargo carrier.