Well, we almost made it. I needed just four more hours for
the desk work, despite working all day:
Upgrades to iPad and cell phone communications packages; travel alert
with my credit cards; two different ferry reservations from Alaska ; campground reservations for the
first three nights, etc.
As I feared, the provincial campgrounds I want to stay
in (because I know them) are now all full for the weekend, after I was able to
get the last sites in two of them. Unfortunately, they are the worst sites in
the camps, which will be a comedown for us since we had the best sites in them
last year. There was no way I could have made reservations long ago because the
sites are almost $60 a night and the payments are not refundable if you change
or cancel them. I am sure I am going to find this to be the case every weekend until
we get to the Yukon and Alaska ,
so I just might be spending some nights in some RV camps just off the highway.
No big deal, as our goal is to get to Alaska .
If I had finished up all the deskwork last night, if my
sleep was what it turned out to be (poor), I would not have gotten on the road today,
at least not for a 370 mile drive to New
York . My first rule is to leave when I am 100% ready
and fully rested. My hope is to finish up the remaining work this morning and take ti easy for the remainder of the day so that I can leave early tomorrow. On all
five of my previous trips, I have not been able to leave before 11:00 a.m. because
loading the Defender takes so long. I hope to beat that tomorrow by three hours.
Problem is, then I’ll have to sit in traffic around Baltimore . But that could very well be the
last traffic I sit in for two months.
Back to work.
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