We are  getting  ready  to go on a voyage in a couple  of weeks that has been in the  planning stages for at least 2 years. Some things in our  plan have  changed in the  last year  but the  vision has remained the  same.

    We’re  headed  to Arizona to ride in the desert and bask in the winter sun.

We are  checking things out because this is our  plan once we  retire in a few years.

    For this trip , We’ll be staying 17days in the rig that you see above. There will be  Peg and  I, our  Texas Heeler Scout and  our 2  horses Jake and  Chief.

    I’ve been working  on the  truck and  camper for the  past month when it was  too windy or inclimate to ride the  horses.

    We’ve  done  several upgrades to the  4  horse  Circle  J trailer for this trip also. I’ll get into all of that  a bit later.

    We bought the 2007 GMC Duramax 3500 this year and  really  like the  truck. We traded our 2004 3/4 ton Duramax in exchange for it. It need some things done to it  for this trip though. 

    I wired the camper  plug-in under the  box of the  truck so that it would  run the  camper electrical and  charge the  batteries in the  camper. Also, The truck needed  Camper tie-downs installed. I elected to use the Tork-Lift brand because that is what we had on the last truck and liked them.

    The  other thing that had to be  redesigned for the new truck was the  front  Jack braces. The  new truck’s fenders stick out more because it is a dually.