L'il Guy is At The Port and Ready To Go

Did you know it is customary for folks to give their RV a name?  I happen to be uncommonly deficient in this area - after all, I did have a cat named, "Cat."  So, when we got this new smaller, RV we decided it had to have a name....no luck.  We just kept referring to it as the little guy compared to our first RV that was quite a bit larger.  So, we have taken the easy way out and will hereinafter refer to it as L'il Guy.  Sorry, L'il Guy

Anyway, we had a boatyard do major exterior reconditioning of the gelcoat finish and it looks fantastic.

See?  Isn't he clean, shiny and handsome?

We had to drain the propane tank gas -(sorry, neighbors) and it took the generator a full two days of running to use up all the propane.  Then we had the gas company come out, verify it was empty and write us a letter.  This was one of the most difficult shipping preparation issues we faced because the freight forwarder kept telling us we needed to purge the tank, but the gas company explained this was a huge job involving nitrogen and negative pressure and 'stuff' and that no one would do it.  In the end we decided to play stupid and just empty the tank and see if it worked.  So far, so good.  We packed L'il Guy with our usual camping stuff plus the new step-down transformer and other things specific to this trip.

We were supposed to remove the license plates (apparently, they make great wall art for the European dock workers), but one of the screws was rusted and now it is stripped, so Jack figured if he cannot get it off, then others will have the same problem.

We drove down to the dock in Charleston on Monday.  Jack went through Security while I waited outside the gate and he returned 15 minutes later.  All done.  They didn't even ask for that darned letter from the propane company that we worried so much about.  Jack wanted to get a photo of L'il Guy on the dock, right under the beautiful Charleston bridge, but they wouldn't let him because it is a secure area.  

So, we said goodbye to L'il Guy and will patiently (yeah, right) wait to hear that he was shipped, as scheduled, on May 27th to Zeebrugge, Belgium.