It's not even 9:30am and I'm sitting outside enjoying the first cup of good fresh roasted coffee I've had in ...uh... I'm not even sure how long it's been at this point, the roaster wasn't getting up to second crack temperature using it outside at the higher altitudes.

Which wasn't the point at all, Although droll to some, to me the big deal of the day is that for the first time ever in the Vogue, all of my clothes and other launderable items are clean, folded and put away!  I brought WAY too much stuff!  I've been going through and throwing things away as I fold but there's still just too much.  I am carrying enough bath towels that I could have run a community shower at Burning Man and given everyone in camp a clean towel when they were done and still had enough left over to offer showers to random hotties off the street.  Do I really need to be able to go 3 or 4 weeks without wearing the same pair of shorts twice?  Or jeans?  T-Shirts get a pass, obviously, but I still left hundreds in Philly including dozens of FolkFest shirts (Don't worry, I brought enough Fest shirts with me that I could probably go a month without wearing the same one twice* (*caveat there being I have 3 of the shirts from most years... But probably only brought one or two)).  I have a Fest shirt on now, 2004.  And I have way too many storage bins!  I have a huge storage bin full of unused storage bins and there are more bins that didn't fit in that bin.

So I'm finally starting to get settled in, I've even done the plastic removal and major vacuuming of the carpets and furniture (next year I WILL have the plastic down BEFORE Burning Man!).  There's still one more pile of crap to tackle that I will hopefully get started on today.  I can do some major rearranging now as well since yesterday I figured out I can lock all the outside storage compartments!  Yes, they have been full of stuff and unlocked for months and I had not one but two copies of the key to them all on my daily use keychain.  It's a long story (but aren't they all?).  And with Fest and Burning Man in the rearview mirror for this year, there's a ton of stuff in the cabinets that can get put into some of those bins and get put away for next year, freeing up valuable cabin space for important daily use items that haven't found a home yet (like the bins of kitchen utensils and spices still sitting on the table).
Not to mention probably being able to consolidate the massive snack cabinet in with the other food cabinet at this point.  It's funny how empty the fridge has become too, after it seemed odd to me having it packed so full like it was.  I'll get to use the fridge braces I bought that were totally unnecessary when it was packed in like sardines. I think the smaller fridge will work out well for me, it always seemed like such a waste running that huge house fridge (which was actually on the small side) when I was probably only using 10-15% of its capacity.

How do I know that this thing I am doing, this thing I have wanted to do for so long... is, now that I am doing it, really where I want to be?  After a month in the Vogue full time, When offered a bed in either my uncle's or my sister's house there wasn't even a split second of consideration before I pointed at where the Beast lay sleeping and said, "No thanks, I brought my house with me."  And I have to admit that thanks to a ridiculous sale, I now understand why people spend a fortune on high thread count Egyptian cotton sheets.  I have used my sisters shower a couple of times, it's weird not turning the water off to lather up.

On Monday we hit the Cummins/Allison repair shop and hopefully a fuel pump (or less) will do the trick, otherwise they will probably send me to another shop who specializes in RVs.  It'll be nice to get on the road with a degree of confidence I haven't had since the Poconos.  And if I'm lucky, with a speedometer and cruise control.  I know she still needs a lot of work and it'll be an ongoing and expensive struggle... But aren't most things that are worthwhile?  I'm just beginning to scratch the surface of the benefits of a life on wheels but I have to say that was one of the most amazing months of my life! I am excited about the prospects that lay before me.