{"id":163,"date":"2014-10-13T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:27:33","slug":"ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, I do hope the cheque is here tomorrow because I am ready<\/em>. One might wonder what I would have done without this three-day delay. Well, I could have definitely been just as ready to leave first thing Saturday morning. I just stretched out the final chores to fill the days.<\/p>\n

Here’s what’s left on my list for tomorrow (or whatever day that dang cheque comes…)<\/p>\n

-pack final items into the truck (overnight, computer, and food bags)<\/p>\n

-rinse out the black tank and put away the sewer hose (I leave the grey water open so the hose is always hooked up)<\/p>\n

-drain the water system, apply the water heater by-pass, and add potable anti-freeze<\/p>\n

-put away my garbage barrel<\/p>\n

-buy my\u00a0 US travel medical insurance<\/p>\n

-put my SaskTel service on hold<\/p>\n

-pack up the booster<\/p>\n

-turn off the power, lock the breaker box, and read the metre<\/p>\n

-drop a set of keys off at C&Cs<\/p>\n

I can do some of those things before checking the post tomorrow, but there’s no sense winterizing until I know for sure that I’m going.<\/p>\n

If I am unable to leave tomorrow, I will have to make yet another run into Willow Bunch for food. \ud83d\ude41 What I bought on Friday was just the right amount to get me to tonight, but otherwise I’m down to nuts and miso soup, not quite a healthy diet!<\/p>\n

Mail is sorted by 9:30, so I should know by ten if I am good to go. If so, I’ll be out of here by noon. I’ve conceded that the Opheim crossing makes the most sense even though I haven’t had great experiences crossing there. Should I get through with minimal delay, I’ll be in Glasgow for a late lunch and then I am going to drive hard to Billings. Google Maps says I’m looking at a seven hourish drive, so I wish I could set out sooner than noon, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n

In Billings, I need to get an oil change done on the truck (my oil levels are fine for the drive down), buy a new GPS unit (the app I downloaded on my phone is not working well for me) as well as a paper map book, and see about getting a US SIM card for the phone. So that should eat up a good chunk of Wednesday (or the first day after departure…).<\/p>\n

Twelve hours to go before I can for mail. Hopefully my next post will be about heading out! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, I do hope the cheque is here tomorrow because I am ready. One might wonder what I would have done without this three-day delay. Well, I could have definitely been just as ready to leave first thing Saturday morning. I just stretched out the final chores to fill the days. Here’s what’s left on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[816,14,43,635,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billings","category-mexico","category-montana-usa","category-north-america","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}