I understand that the Ukranian parliament has voted to allow citizens to carry guns. It took an invasion! I carry a gun on my person practically every day, and I keep several 'evil' long guns in my house. Citizens of the USA are better prepared to defend this country than probably every other country on this earth.
I think the 2A was intended as a last ditch defense from our own government, but there are other applications.
The first week of January I hitched the trailer to the truck and we headed south, on our way to the Florida Keys. The first day was a challenge.
1- I was just getting over diarrhea from medicine to kill my sinus infection, and the Boss was feeling really bad.
2- I activated the hydraulic leveling jacks in preparation to hitching the truck, but nothing worked. Not known to me, there's a switch that isolates the trailer's 12 volt battery. Instead of being kept charged by the house power, it was dead. The hydraulics are powered by 12 volts. So it was 1:00 before we hit the road on the first leg, that was estimated to take 6 hours of driving.
3- I-75 near Lexington Ky. was closed a day before we were to leave due to heavy snow. When we left it was reported as clear. That was almost the case. For several miles the pavement had thick ice, with intermittent small clear areas. It was rough as all hell, reducing our speed down to about 40mph.
4- We arrived at our first overnight stop very late. I think it was around 9:00 or 10:00. The office was closed, but a map showing where to park the trailer was posted. Misreading the map put us in a dead end, in the dark, where my fatigue and inexperience didn't allow me to turn around. I saw a way of driving forward, making a turn between 2 trees. In the dark I didn't see that one was originally dual trunked, with one cut off a few feet from the ground. The trailer caught it just in front of the axles. There was no functional damage, but it did a fine job of bending and tearing thin sheet metal.
Thankfully, our trip got a lot better from then on.
The first week of January I hitched the 5th wheel trailer to the truck, loaded the Boss and both dogs, then headed south. We made reservations at several RV parks for the trip. I set it up for 6 hours maximum road time using mapquest. This is our first long road trip, and in the future I'll schedule less time/distance between stops. Pulling a 36ft 12,000lb (empty) trailer is more tiring than driving a car. Professional truck drivers probably think I'm a wimp.
The Boss has wanted to go to the Florida Keys, so we spent a week there, after 4 days of travel. Then on to Lakeland Florida where my sister and her family live, for a couple of weeks. And now we're on our way, sort of, back home to Ohio. Our homeward journey was planned to be 2 night stops and 3 days. Then the winter storm intervened. So now we're spending extra time in central Georgia. No way do I want to pull this trailer across the mountains if the road has snow or ice.
