Yosemite Pines RV Park, tachometer – 192 miles.
Today finally arrived! The moment most people dream of, is happening to us. We are at the end of our first day of our Big Trip, which will last until early next year. Paola and I still can’t believe we are doing this.
The last 2 weeks have been very hectic for us. We had to pack up our house for storage, prepare stuff for our North America RV tour, prepare additional stuff for the rest of our vacation afterwards, and prepare stuff that will go with us to Israel when we end our world tour. Tonight, all those worries are behind us, and we are settling in to our home for the next 3 and a half months.
On Friday the movers came and emptied our house, or so we thought. The amount of junk we still had to either pack, donate, or throw out was immense. If anything, moving is an exercise in cleaning out all the stuff you don’t really need. It took us most of the weekend to tidy up. Yesterday (Monday morning) Ron had a farewell at his preschool and then Paola and I went to pick up our RV.
Our RV is a newer model than what we had last month during our Pesach Trip, and there are some minor changes compared to the older one. Some are for the better, some are a little disadvantageous for our 3 tots configuration. Since we had the luxury of loading the RV from our house, we have about 3 times more stuff on this vehicle than we did last month. It took us 4 hours to load, and ever since yesterday we are working on fitting everything into the cupboards, closets and other nooks and crannies in the RV.
On Sunday and Monday night we stayed with Gal and Adi, as we no longer had enough furniture at home. It was fun for Ron to have a sleepover with his friend Roy. Although Roy is 2.5 years older, they got along very well and looked very cute sleeping together on a huge inflatable bed. Last night Dan and Yael also came over to say goodbye and we had a long evening of laughs.
Benny really helped us out over the weekend, serving as primary entertainment for the kids, while Paola and I were packing up. Thanks Bro!
This morning we loaded the last of our stuff onto the RV, ran some final errands and by noon were on our way. Our first stop is Yosemite National Park. We are now 22 miles west of the park in an RV campground that has full hookup. This means that we are connected to running water, sewage, and electricity. Unfortunately, these luxuries do not exist at the campgrounds within the National Parks (monopoly by NPS?) . So everywhere you go there is always the dilema of living in comfort or living where the action is.
That’s it for now, I am pooped after several weeks of poor sleep. Time to hit the sack…
Hemi