Our trip so far has been fun and uneventful but there have been a few bumps along the way.  As you can imagine, our house requires constant tinkering.  So does Bill’s.  So does everyone’s. For example, before we leave Mark checks the tires, oil, batteries, hooks up the brake on the car and checks that it is properly attached to the hitch.  He unhooks sewer, water, and electricity, and makes sure the “basement”doors are secure.  Inside, I clean the floors so the slides don’t damage the tile, I stow everything so it won’t fall or break or rattle(hopeless).  I put bars in the fridge so when I next open the doors everything won’t fall out.  I turn on the inverter, start the rig and after the air comes up, I pull in the slides.  Then we are ready to roll.  BUT.  Here’s what has gone awry.  When we left Branson we were out of town 5 minutes when all the engine red lights came on.  When you burn diesel you make soot and the heat of the engine burns it up, UNLESS the cat has walked on the buttons and turned the regeneration one off.  (Not good.). Took 30 minutes after a panicked stop and frantic reading of the engine OEM to determine what we had to do.  Sat on I-70 while the engine ran at top speed to burn the soot.  Later on that day, a car drove up beside Bill with a sign telling him his headlight was broken.  This was after we had gone through another rain storm and Bill’s windshield wiper fell off.  The coupe de gras was when we stopped at a rest stop for lunch and another rig which had stopped beside us took off and with a terrible wrenching sound, his car and hitch came loose from his motorhome, bounced along from side to side behind him, ran into the back bumper of the motorhome and gouged a great hole in it.  We ran to stop him and he casually got out, said he had just had a new hitch installed and they must not have locked it on right, fixed it and left.  Stay cool, my friend!  Yeesh!!!