The eve of departing - are we nuts???

Pack, clean, sort, file, fix, and mow. Do the laundry, make the beds, water the plants, feed the cats, stop the mail, pay the bills and drop into bed from total exhaustion. Is this anyway to start a vacation???!!! Well, probably not, but it has to be, since we're extending this 'vacation' for who knows how long and we need to get our ducks in a row before we leave.
Imagine 6 people in 240 square feet of space for weeks on end.
Imagine 1 bathroom, a table that seats 4 and a refrigerator the size of a shoebox.
Imagine you are the mom of 3 growing, rowdie boys used to having 6 wooded acres to run amok in - confined to this space, along with 1 pre-adult girl who packed 15 text books for taking college classes on the run.
And imagine all this, in a suburban that will only go 40 miles an hour uphill!
Oh, I know. It's way beyond crazy.
So, the plan is to buy a diesel 4 door pickup that will pull our little home better and that will get more than 8 miles to the gallon of gas along the way.
And we also would like to actually get a larger home - say a 5th wheel, with beds enough for everyone, since the two little boys refuse to sleep together on the table that turns into a bed - and so the younger one opts to sleep in a sleeping bag - on the floor!!! It's great fun trying to get around that in the middle of the night for a run to the bathroom . . .
Is my hair completely grey yet??
Okay - so tomorrow - God willing - we will head west. We will stop in a little town in northern South Dakota to visit my dear aunt and uncle and then head for the hills. The Black Hills. You know, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Crystal Cave, buffalo and Deadwood; home of Wild Bill Hickock and more casinos than the plains have prairie dogs.
I will try to document our travels as we go, and try not to bore anybody.
But right now, I have to take a load of garbage to the dump and say good-bye to the four cute little kittens our psychotic cat just had a few days ago. Too bad we won't be around to coddle them and spoil them to human touch. I'm sure they'll turn completely wild by the time we return, as I expect my children to do as well.
So, farwell for now. As soon as we do something exciting and unusual, I'll let you know.
We're off to the badlands. No trees, no houses, and no cell service for 5 hours.
Can you say -are we there yet???!