Final organization.....

 7:07 am - Wednesday - April 16th - TWW - 55° F, humidity 31%, wind 8 mph out of the south by southeast.....partly cloudy this morning with a forecast high of 75° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were saying our 'until next times' to Steven and Linda Dempsey.....

....who came to visit us for a couple of nights at Goosenecks State Park (Southern Utah near Mexican Hat).  A great time was had by all.

Tuesday was completely dedicated to getting our American Trailer ready for VW Beetle insertion.  Whenever I begin the final trailer organization it always seems so impossible that I can change it from a workshop to a car hauler in less than a day.  I just begin with one small thing at a time, and within a few hours of concerted effort it looks like this....

....at the beginning of the day I had two 4' tables with nothing but tools on the right side in the picture above.  By the end of the day all of that stuff was stowed at the front the trailer in the picture below.....

.....we've got a few more things to stow up there, but they will wait until Saturday so I can still have access to my work bench.  During the day I also continued to move some things into the garage, which we will not be taking with us to LPG&RVR, and moving others back to the trailer such as our heated hose, which we'll need for two, or three weeks in May, as well as our suitcases (we'll be flying up to Montana in late June to visit my sister Hilary and her husband, Bob).  All in all we're leaving around a thousand pounds of rarely used stuff we had acquired over our 13 years on the road that we normally carry with us as we had no place to leave it.....now we do.  On our most recent trip south from Likely to Seligman it became way too obvious that we had way TOO MUCH STUFF, and need to either get rid of the excess, or find a place to store it.

That was the some total of what I did Tuesday.  TLE also busied herself with her work inside the Newell getting everything ready for travel, and she helped me more than few time moving heavy stuff.  

Around 15 years ago I installed gas shocks under our bed to enable us to raise the bed platform up to access the storage area underneath without using a stick to prop it up.  When they were new they easily lifted the bed platform, and were rated at 100 pounds each of lifting power.  They worked well for all this time, but this winter they began to struggle to raise, and then hold the bed platform, so I bought some new ones off Amazon that are rated at 125 pounds, and installed them Monday.  Now, all you have to do is begin to lift the bed platform and the shocks take over, and hold it up without effort....

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