RETRO BLOG: Twas the Night Before Pick up

Originally posted on Blogger on Sunday, September 21, 2008 

​Twas the night before pick up ...

​"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money."
~Susan Heller

As many of you know, dear friends and family, the Dobbses are about to embark on a little adventure. We have rented --for one FULL MONTH -- a 33-foot, class A recreational vehicle and are preparing as we speak to load up many of our worldly possessions, as well as our 10-month-old daughter Roxanne, and drive this vehicle through the vast wilderness we call America. Intended ports of call include Chicago; Twin Lakes, Wisconsin; Niagara Falls; Boston; Maine; New Jersey; Virginia Beach, and various other stops on a round trip from Atlanta; however, stop number one on the tour occurs tomorrow, when we pick up the beast and attempt to guide it safely to our driveway to load it full of crap.

To give you a small idea of just how much crap we will be taking, I'd like to call your attention to this photograph.

This is a glimpse of our dining room table, which holds ONLY the stuff we will be taking for Roxanne. Given that Roxanne's clothing is sized for someone 24 inches tall, you can extrapolate the sheer volume that this represents. I am not sure we will have room for much else, except for the burlap sacks marked with dollar signs that we've prepared to hand over at each gas station.


But, we are starting to get excited, and we all have our fingers crossed that DJ's impeccable driving skills and my quick skim of the multiple-page direction manual will soon have us on our way to steering 25,000 pounds of steel, glass, and canned goods in the direction of some old-fashioned fun.

Tomorrow, we ride!

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