{"id":21660,"date":"2009-10-27T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2016-09-16T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T10:45:52","slug":"and-theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/and-theyre-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And&#8230; They&#8217;re Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I got up early to help Norma and Croft finish loading up the motorhome.<\/p>\n<p>It is here that I have to comment on how horrible RV manufacturers are to give modern RVs so much storage space and just about no carrying capacity. I once had Croft crunch the numbers and their rig was seriously overweight. Their rig is sagging so much the belly scrapes the pavement! Okay, I&#8217;m being facetious, but, really, all that storage space is misleading! I know that Miranda&#8217;s previous owners didn&#8217;t give a second thought to carrying capacity, which gives me the willies.<\/p>\n<p>Norma added onto my list of things to do this winter and gave me an incredibly onerous task: emptying out the freezer, fridge and pantry. \ud83d\ude09 I managed to squeeze the cold goods into my fridge and freezer, but I now need to rearrange the pantry to get rid of the mountain of stuff in my entry way. I won&#8217;t have to go grocery shopping for a couple of months! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>They set off in glorious, pattern-breaking, weather at 10 o&#8217;clock, bang on time. Tonight, they will be going all the way to Victoria, at the other end of the Island, and sleeping at the ferry terminal.<\/p>\n<p>We got along so well that I actually feel a tad bereft right now, all alone in a strange town. *snickers*<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the weather will be holding (yay!) so I&#8217;m off to tackle a fairly major exterior job on Miranda and then I&#8217;ll be free to start working on the inside!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I got up early to help Norma and Croft finish loading up the motorhome. It is here that I have to comment on how horrible RV manufacturers are to give modern RVs so much storage space and just about no carrying capacity. I once had Croft crunch the numbers and their rig was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,635,5,3],"tags":[767],"class_list":["post-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","tag-cruisesferries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}