Why do something today when you can put it off until tomorrow? Manana, manana, manana. Well for the last few months we've known we were doing this trip, but daily life has taken priority. So here we are, three days before we leave and we're only starting to prepare seriously now. (And I still have 2.5 shifts to work still) Nicole's been working nonstop getting things together at home.
We have an inflatable queen sized mattress, which fits like a glove (Michael Jackson's, not OJ Simpson's) behind the front row of seats. This'll be our quarters in a pinch, but we'd rather be tenting it or in a hotel most nights. We've pulled out the back row of seating leaving more room for cargo. It also frees up an area where we can sit out of the weather if need be to watch a movie or eat or park and watch Hailey and Reilly practice with their newly purchased skim boards.
Also picked up a camping shower, it's basically a black 5 gallon bladder which you fill up and let sit in the sun. I'm guessing it won't take too long to heat with some of the temperatures down there. In the military, we used this same idea in Kuwait by painting water tanks black for hot showers, but by July we had ended up painting them white in an effort to cool the showers down. Maybe California will be a bit less intense.
We have an inflatable queen sized mattress, which fits like a glove (Michael Jackson's, not OJ Simpson's) behind the front row of seats. This'll be our quarters in a pinch, but we'd rather be tenting it or in a hotel most nights. We've pulled out the back row of seating leaving more room for cargo. It also frees up an area where we can sit out of the weather if need be to watch a movie or eat or park and watch Hailey and Reilly practice with their newly purchased skim boards.
Also picked up a camping shower, it's basically a black 5 gallon bladder which you fill up and let sit in the sun. I'm guessing it won't take too long to heat with some of the temperatures down there. In the military, we used this same idea in Kuwait by painting water tanks black for hot showers, but by July we had ended up painting them white in an effort to cool the showers down. Maybe California will be a bit less intense.
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