Planning and Preparing, Part 2

Your driver for this post is Susanne.

Little by little, we're making headway on prepping for RV life. Some accomplishments from the past week or so:

1. We snagged one of Thousand Trails 2-Camping-Zones-for-1 deals and purchased TT passes for the southeastern and northwestern zones. Although the rules for TT parks are a little complicated, and although online reviews suggest that some of the parks need a little work, it still seems like a pretty good deal. We selected these two zones because we have family members and friends living in both of them and our travel plans include Texas in the winter, Pacific Northwest in the late summer and fall.

2. We created a Google Doc of stuff we need to offload, posted it, and announced it to some of our local friends. Some of our items are listed as "available now," whereas others will be available at the end of May. We also chose not to price our stuff. Instead, we're asking for donations (if people can afford them) towards homeschooling supplies and RV maintenance.

3. We've selected more of our homeschooling curriculum. I think I mentioned in a previous post that we plan to use Life of Fred for math. This morning I selected The Story of the World for history/geography. The books and workbooks have received excellent reviews, and the samples I read were well-written, age-appropriate, and interesting.

4. We're researching "RV hacks" - stuff we can do to make living in the RV as efficient and organized as possible. Other ideas for efficient organizing? Let us know!

5. We're in the process of getting caught up on dental and doctor's checkups. Our insurance right now is good, so we may as well take advantage of it and get what we can out of it in terms of preventative care.