Went out today and took a few pictures of the inside upgrades to the TC. Most were accomplished for this trip, some were from previous projects.

First, one of Tincansailor's early projects: adding a small light just inside the door. Our side entry has a touch pad on the outside that very conveniently turns on the light near the door for a few minutes. Tincansailor added a license plate light just inside the door, and wired it to the touch pad, so when we turn on lights with the touch pad, that small light hits the 2 interior steps. Very convenient and safer too.

Next, Tincansailor add a blow dryer in the bath. I've had a blow dryer for years, that was stored under the sink in the bath, but we decided try the wall-mounted model. I plug it in only when I need it, and yes, it has a GFCI.









Then, we were remembering how nice it was in our previous TC when we could pull out a small extension under the dinette cushions, and put our feet up when watching TV at night. So, Tincansailor decided to recreate the slide.










Just slip on a pillow, and get comfortable. Push it in when you're done, and it's totally out of the way.










Sailorsmate projects were to make a new bed quilt, a room-darkening shade, and curtains to replace the wardrobe mirror doors. Check these out:

19 Days and counting ...

The truck and camper are almost ready for the first leg of the great road trip. So far, the truck has been readied by changing from regular to synthetic oil, and having a through mechanical check at the dealership. And the rear hitch has been upgraded to a Class 5, to better carry the bike rack. The front hitch has a new extension lift bar, so the front basket will be 10 inches higher. The front basket will carry the gas grill. The folding steps on the camper have been cleaned, lubricated and painted.

We're finishing cleaning and re-arranging the inside of the camper--sorting through everything in every cabinet, drawer and cubby so we only take what we need, and finding all kinds of things we've forgotten we put in the camper. Tincansailor converted one storage cabinet back to a wardrobe, for hanging clothes, then he built three drawers for the larger wardrobe in the cabover. Next came creating slide extensions at the dinette so that we have foot rests when we're watching TV. Now we can sit with our backs against the window and not have our feet hang over the seats. Sailorsmate has been working on a new bed quilt, larger and in brighter colors than the old one, and on a room-darkening curtain for one window of the cabover. Our camper came with light-filtering shades on all but one window; that one window in the cabover had a room darkening shade, but the second window needed a room darkening shade too, so, one was created to match the quilt.

We've got 19 days to finish all our projects, which doesn't leave much time for test drives!