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We got up to light rain this morning.\u00a0 I’m glad we got all the tree branches out yesterday.\u00a0 It sunned up around ten, so I vacuumed the bed of the truck.\u00a0 I have a cap<\/a> and BedRug on the bed.\u00a0 We’d been hauling dogs, rocks, and firewood in the back, so the rug needed vacuuming.\u00a0 It cleaned up real nice.\u00a0 We even washed the windows to get doggy noseprints off the inside.\u00a0 One option I’m thankful I got with the truck was the removable slider front window.\u00a0 That allows me to clean not only the outside of the cap window but the outside of the back window on the truck as well.\u00a0 As for the BedRug, it’s a lot easier on my decrepit knees when I have to crawl around in the back of the truck.<\/p>\n

We’re preparing to head out on a three-week vacation a week from today, so hubby is planning the route as I type.\u00a0 For the last ten years or so, hubby has attended the antique car part swap meet at Hershey, PA.\u00a0 This year, we’re driving up, playing along the way, going to Carlisle, PA, for the car swap meet that week, then sidetripping up to New York for some lanterning exploration before settling into Hershey.\u00a0 We top the trip off with hubby’s annual Lantervention gathering for any of his subscribers available to attend.\u00a0 Lantern collectors from all over gather to discuss their hobby.\u00a0 After that, we’ll play along the route home.<\/p>\n

In the past, hubby has flown to PA and rented a car for the time he’s been there.\u00a0 I’m so disgusted with the hassles and discomforts of the airline industry, I proposed driving this year.\u00a0 After due consideration, hubby decided it might be fun.\u00a0 He plans the route on his laptop.\u00a0 He searches for things to do along the way and programs them into his StreetAtlas USA.\u00a0 Then, I drive while he rides in the passenger seat with the laptop plugged into a power inverter and the GPS running.\u00a0 He tells me where to go, and I go there.\u00a0 We started traveling this way several years ago while I was stationed in Virginia, and we’ve enjoyed it ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got up to light rain this morning.\u00a0 I’m glad we got all the tree branches out yesterday.\u00a0 It sunned up around ten, so I vacuumed the bed of the truck.\u00a0 I have a cap and BedRug on the bed.\u00a0 We’d been hauling dogs, rocks, and firewood in the back, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16453,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}