Wednesday 3-21 Getting Ready for our Spring Trip

Getting Ready

For quite a number of years we have taken a trip in the spring, we are normally on the road for around 6 weeks. It's that time of the year and we are getting the Minnie ready. 

This morning we went to Mister Car Wash to give the car a bath. It wasn't that dirty but we wanted to get the underbody washed again considering we had taken it through snow and roads treated in salt. Yesterday when we went grocery shopping I had forgotten to pick up a couple of things so after the car got a bath we stopped at Walmart. 

Over the past couple of decades we have built up a number of bottles of left over prescription drugs, they are all well past the expatriation date and we wanted to dispose of them properly. Larry checked on the web and found only a few Walgreens accepted them and none were close to us, if you live in Austin there are only two Walgreens in the entire metropolitan area that participate. CVS did not offer anything. He could not find anything on the Walmart site so when we were there he asked them how to dispose of them. They told him they thought the Temple fire stations and police stations would take them. There was a sub-station on the way home so we stopped by, they said that the main police station downtown had a disposal kiosk. So off to the main Temple Police Station we went. Larry went inside, he said he didn't even have to go all the way inside, the kiosk was right inside the door, actually it was more like a metal safe, you put the bottles in a built in metal tray and turn a crank and they fall inside the safe.

The last few weeks we have been seeing Apple Maps vans going around town taking pictures. Today we saw one of the vans parked at the gas station by the house so we stopped and Larry asked if he could take pictures of the van, the lady said no problem. Click on the picture for a better look at the van. It has cameras all around the van and some spinning cylinders on each top corner, very neat. A couple of years ago we also saw the Google Maps cars in our area.

One of the Apple Maps vans

After lunch we started loading the Minnie. I started by wiping down the refrigerator. Then I loaded it up with food. I restocked other items for the bathroom and kitchen areas. Larry moved the Minnie to the front of the house and put the motorcycle carrier on. Then he loaded the motorcycle on the carrier. Once the motorcycle was loaded up he added more air to the air bags on the rear suspension. When he finished we took the Minnie for a ride to see how it handled the extra weight on the back. Larry said the Minnie did excellent. When we got home we covered the motorcycle up. Now it's for the trip. 

In the evening I did laundry while we watched our YouTube videos and the rest of the first season of Inspector Lewis. Tomorrow I will finish getting the Minnie ready. We had a busy day.