Reorganizing the front bay

As a result of the work I had been doing on the coach since the previous July, the storage bays had become somewhat disorganized.  We decided to empty the front bay into the driveway and also moved much of the RV related stuff in the garage out into the driveway.  (“Stuff” is a technical RVing term, sometimes spelled “stuf” when used as a “4-letter” word.)  We then selected and repacked items for travel, reloaded the front bay in an organized fashion, and put everything else back in the garage in as organized a way as we could given our time constraints.  Although simple to describe, this took a good portion of the day to accomplish.

We then filled the fresh water tank with filtered/softened water (but not Reverse Osmosis, or RO) and de-winterized the plumbing by flushing the potable antifreeze from all of the lines.  We did this using both shoreline water and water pumped from the fresh water tank using the on-board water pump to make sure the anti-freeze was out of all of the lines.  This was the first time the new pump had been used and the water flow was still surprisingly poor, not what we had expected.  I e-mailed Butch Williams, a fellow busnut, to give him a heads up, as their house/business in Indiana was our first planned stop, hoping that he might be able to help me figure out what was wrong, and, more importantly, what to do to try to fix it.

By the end of the day we were 98% ready to go, but with a number of question marks hanging over our heads.