RV living yet?

Good morning everyone!  Most of you may know that we started across the country on Monday.  Where are we? Well, currently we are in PA.

How are we doing?
Great! We are healthy. We've met some great people already.  None of our mistakes have been huge.  The dogs are cooperating.  Lots of pluses there.

So what could be better?
Well, when we travel the slides are in.  We are super fortunate to have two slides. They make a ton of difference in space.  Last night we stayed at a rest area so we didn't put them out.  It's fine. We can get to pretty much everything it's just tight.  It makes us grateful that we have slides normally.  I'm sure Jay would say it would be better if I were driving too. (Well, maybe he would, mostly he'd close his eyes and hope)  :)  I actually did move it about a foot yesterday.

We stayed at a super nice welcome ctr in Danbury, CT.  There was a free dumping station so in the morning he pulled up to it.  He then had me move the coach up about a foot more for comfortable hose reach.  Let me tell you.  It's different.  They say it's like driving a car.  I've never driven a car with brakes that reacted like that!  I'm sure I will adjust and I will drive at some point. I need to learn for safety but I'd rather we get a bit more comfortable with everything else first.

Jay has done fantastic! (We knew he would, right?)  Even with the extra 15 ft we have in length with the dolly and tow car he's been amazing.  GPS got us a bit turned around in CT and we had to go through some tight spaces but he handled it like a champ! So proud of him.

What have we done for bone head mistakes?
Well the aforementioned GPS folly was a piece of fun ;) and we almost missed an exit yesterday creating the need to quickly cross 3 lanes of traffic...note that with 56 ft of vehicle this does not make truckers around you happy!  But I am adapting!  I have figured out a way to use the atlas, NEXT exit book and the GPS in coordination so that it gives us a double check.  We don't trust any one source (including me) that much but if at least two things verify with each other it gives us about a 95% confidence boost.

Where are we going?
Well, our first goal is to get to Nappanee, IN home of Newmar (the makers of our rig).  We heard back from customer service and they take walk-ins Tue-Thur so we have a shot at getting there by Thursday.  We'd like them to take a look at the awning and make sure it's safe to go.  Then on Friday I'd really like to take their factory tour and see how they make the coaches from the bottom up. I'm sure it's a ton of helpful information.  Plus! There will be parts available.  We need to replace some light covers that are super yellow and brittle and find some hard to find light bulbs.
After that we are on to Vegas for the Rodan and Fields convention.  Jay will stay with the dogs in a KOA campground while I head in town to stay in the timeshare for that event.

How has the coach handled?
We've only had about 1200 ft of elevation so far but she's doing great!

I'll keep you posted as we go.  We changed our T-mobile plan so we can have our phones as unlimited hotspots.  This is not perfect, but it's working so far. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep you updated regularly! :)

Hope you all are doing well!  Thanks for following along!

~Mikki