Our Maiden Voyage

July 22, 2016 was the day we had to be all packed up and moved out of our house.  Eric and I were so proud of how well we had done purging all of our worldly goods and felt like we really had only the necessities left.  As we started to take truck loads of stuff over to the trailer we quickly realized that we might have to do a little better.  Our final dump run included quite a few items we had intended on bringing with us.

  So we bought our trailer back in May but had never actually taken it out and used it until after we had to be out of our house.  We had been busy getting our house ready to sell and visiting that we just never got around to it.  Our maiden voyage was our trip up north for the Whitfield reunion.  We learned a few things on this first trip in the trailer.  The first one being to secure everything inside the trailer…we didn’t.  When we opened the door after our 8 hour drive, it was a disaster!  My sugar bowl had smashed and spilled sugar everywhere, my butter dish was broken, tv screens and fans were on the floor, and anything that was on a counter was now on the floor.  Whoops! Eric had lots of practice driving the truck and trailer into tight spaces and backing that beast up.  We brought the trailer over to Luke and Amy Vine’s house for a few days before the Whitfield reunion but on the way over there, Eric missed the road and headed down the Chapleau highway instead.  We quickly realized we were going the wrong way, so Eric had to do a 3 point turn with the trailer on the highway in the dark.  I was pretty sure we were going to be in a ditch, but he did it!  When it was time to bring the trailer over to the farm, we knew getting into the driveway was going to be tricky.  It was a very tight squeeze and the trailer has a nice little dent on the side where it got wedged up against the gate post on Eric’s first attempt to pull into the drive.  He ended up backing up and turning it around and coming in the driveway from the other direction.  Smooth sailing!   .