Get away day

Here I am sitting in our cozy Montana (she really needs a name) actually writing about the non-events of this day. The cable's gone out and Grammy's gone to bed with a book instead of me. Oh well, it was time for me to give this blogging thing a whirl anyway.

On past camping trips I've attempted to keep a journal of our adventures but I was pretty sloppy and procrastinated. I hope that this method of scribing will encourage me to do better.

We packed up camper last night so all we'd need to do this morning was to hitch up the 350 to the package and wala, we'd be off... without a hitch, so to speak. One last inspection after pulling the camper from it's new resting place in the back yard.... and hum, one of the camper's tires looked suspiciously low. Long story short - that tire has a history of going down, so I had it "fixed" last month. And now it was again 20 psi low. I began to let my imagination run wild and I could see us stranded on the side of a road with a flat tire - or worse yet with a very damaged camper. But like I said earlier, this was a non-event day. I filled the lazy tire and kept a close eye on any signs of slow leaks. 5 1/2 hours later we pulled into the Jekyll Island campground and began doing the usual stuff in setting up camp. Grammy handles the inside stuff and I handle the outside stuff.

Today we vowed that we wouldn't argue about setting up. And guess what - we didn't argue. I must admit that we work pretty well as a team to the point that we do get the job done.

• Note to self: in the future when I know that I'm about to get into an argument with my bride, remember to suggest beforehand "Baby, lets not argue about _______". It worked this time didn't it!

Keeping the peace, Pappy