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We traveled from north Florida all the way into southern North Carolina. The KOA we land in isn’t much to look at, but it suits me well as I’m just tired of driving. Plus, I have a theory on my fridge and why it stopped working.
![[Day 1] Bumpy Start To Our Trip](https://www.happilyrv.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/summer16-day1-768x432.jpg)
Taking off from the Tampa area (where we live), we headed east on I-4 toward Orlando. The plan was to take I-4 over to I-95, then head north. My initial plan was to get somewhere into Georgia then stop for the night.
This summer trip has us leaving Florida and heading up into New York City, upstate New York, Canada, Maine.. then returning to Florida. Total trip is 5 weeks. Day 0 was “prep day”.
I was sitting in a campground and decided to do a little inventory of what I carried in the exterior compartments of my RV and list them out in a blog post. It is what nerds do when camping.
When I left on this 5-week RV trip, I had every intention of blogging here at RVFT every day. But, logistics happen…. campground wifi happens (or doesn’t, to be more accurate)… and that plan didn’t pan out. However, I have been video blogging every day to the Happily RV Facebook page. It has been fun…
Let the trip begin… Packing up for the trip took quite a bit of time. I spent the whole day working on it and my wife helped as well. End result: one fully loaded RV. The next morning, my plan was to leave by around 9AM. Of course, with 2 kids and my wife, 9AM…
Every summer, we take an extended trip in the RV. And while it isn’t necessarily the intention, we seem to make the trip longer every year. When we bought our first RV in 2013 (the Coachman Santara), we took the first longer summer trip in 2014. That year, we went on a 3-week trip which…
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