You can’t take the pilot out of his comfort zone…

We have about decided that we’re going to leave about two and a half weeks earlier than we originally planned. So, August 21^st rather than September 7^th. Our original plan took into account when the kiddos would be back in school which we—silly us—thought would be after Labor Day. When you don’t have grandchildren to worry about, you don’t keep track of when school is in or out. They go back to school either just before Labor Day or a lot before Labor Day. Definitely not after!

Since we were discussing our trip departure date and looking at maps, I just happened to mention to Randy that we still had his old—I mean really, Really, REALLY old (in computer terms, that is) —GPS, a Garmin GPS V. How old you might wonder? Randy used it when he was flying and his last flight was in approximately 1997; he used it for several years before he stopped flying, however. We’re guessing it is about 25 years old. Still works!

I am going to have to convince Randy that our phones will do a whole lot better job than his old GPS. But he has a sentimental attachment to it so it will probably be coming with us no matter what. But I WILL be using my phone for navigation.

The other electronic gizmo (technical term!) we’ll (that’s the royal We—I will be the one managing all our gizmos) have to make sure our dash cam is working. I still have the video our dash cam recorded of us almost being run off the road by a car passing several trucks on a two lane road. She (and it was a woman) would have run head first into us if Randy hadn’t been driving and was able to control our ‘Vette into the dirt of the angled side of the road. Glad he was driving!

I think I mentioned that we both like and depend on checklists. I’m going to have to lighten my Electronics Checklist to fit in the Corvette. There is VERY limited space in the so-called trunk. (The new ones have an even smaller trunk but they also have—drum roll, please—a FRUNK, aka front trunk.) We can fit two carry-on size bags in our trunk plus some other stuff. A fair amount of other stuff if we don’t want to be able to put the top down. Now who in their right mind would load up the trunk such that we couldn’t put the top down? I mean, really? So we’ll have to do a few practice packs.