Countdown T minus 20 days

Finally, we are able to focus on the maiden voyage. After more than two weeks of hair-pulling-head-slapping frustration solving the electrical short in the Dodge--and $300 in parts all for a silly short caused by a loose front shock--we are beginning to relax. The Dodge is actually driving better that it ever has. The transmission feels strong and shifts like it is designed to. All we need to do is get tires for the Coachmen Catalina and get current tags for the Dodge--after a state inspection.
After work I stopped by a local garage here in Lillington for an inspection. North Carolina does not smog test diesels so it is just a routine equipment check. Everthing is good to go, but the three things I "forgot" to fix. In North Carolina you must have a rearview mirror dispite having two GIGANTIC door / trailer mirrors. Mine fell off three days after they installed the new windshield last July. I was meaning to get around to that. The license plate lights weren't working. I don't remember the last car I owned that had license plate lights that worked?? BUT I had picked up some replacement light sockets as I had heard I may need functional lights on the plate. I was meaning to get around to that too. Then there were the door windows. The truck is originally from Florida and the cab windows are DARK. The first month I owned the Dodge I had to turn the running lights on to see the dash gauges with the windows rolled up--during the day!. At night I had to roll the windows down to see if there was a car coming. So I knew they were dark. But they kept the interior cool. Seems they were a 7 on a scale of 100. The lower the number the darker the tint. By law North Carolina allows nothing lower than 34 on driver and passenger door windows. Fortunately the cab windows on the jump doors and slide glass -- which have to be every bit a 1 if not a ZERO--are permissible.
SO before dinner, I replaced the license plate lights, glued the rearview mirror tab to the windshield and peeled tha tint from the door glass. It was painful to do because the tint job had to cost $200-$300 as it looked like they pulled the glass from the door to apply the tint.
Mary is busy plotting our return route from Michigan in mid July. We are leaving North Carolina June 13 in the afternoon and plan to boondock up to Michigan to save time and money. Her youngest daughter in getting married June 18 and there are too many things a mother and daughter have to do before the wedding.
We are discussing the idea of doing the Upper Pennisula and coming around the Wisconsin side -- or --- we may just head to Indiana to a few RV parts outlets before heading west to Gettysburg Pennsylvania (The 150th anniversary year of the start of the Civil War) then to see Hershey and on to Philadelphia. Our last stop would be Washington DC.
Before any of that can happen, I have to take the truck up to complete the state inspection and get plates and then tires for the 5er. And while all this is going on, we have to load up some of our STUFF we have convinced family members to take...