For those of you that have been anxiously awaiting the kickoff to our 2020 voyage, we have begun! And you really need to find something more constructive to do.
Yes! We decided to sneak away and do our shakedown cruise sooner rather than later. We’re hopeful that the whole Covid-19 episode will continue to subside, and we can yet still salvage something of the 2020 summer & fall.
This particular jaunt is only ten or so days and only as far as northern Georgia. The first half is to a state park just outside Savannah called Skidaway Island State Park. The second half will be just north of Atlanta for a few days.
We try every year to do a short mini cruise before we do our big cruise. We use it as a shakedown to test out all the systems, try out any new changes or additions, and reacquaint ourselves after being stationary for a while. (We also make a list of things we took to the house that didn’t make it back. Flour & sugar so far.)
This year’s big change is that we took out the oven and replaced it with a large toaster oven. We found that the oven was just one tiny step away from useless and we hated it. So, we made the decision to do away with it and find a large toaster/convection/airfryer/oven that would fit the space and be many times more useful.
My part was to figure out how to make all the changes and implement them, and June’s part was to research and find an oven that made the most sense. She decided to go with a manual Cuisinart oven that fit the dimension requirements and seemed to have good reviews. Manual because it doesn’t have all the fancy electronics that would probably burn out during the first thunderstorm somewhere that had lightning. Hard to burn out a mechanical timer!
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Long story short, I made all the changes to the old range/oven & cabinetry while she tried out the new oven at home. Much easier to learn a new oven at home rather than on the road. We are very happy to report that it works perfectly and checks off all of our requirements!! (And it just so happens that it makes great wings.)
So, with cautious optimism, we are underway for this year and are hopeful that the following days/weeks will see the US start to get its feet back on the ground.
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Great to be back!!
