Starting to move

I injured my shoulder some years back moving a very heavy desk, and planned on an operation.  The surgery was cancelled the day before it was scheduled on the surgeon's opinion.  To say I was relieved is an understatement, but he did tell me I would probably experience some pain with it over the years if I overdid it.  And it is true.  About once a year, after some abuse it causes quite a bit of discomfort.  Well, all this stuff we've been doing with the base plate, wiring, and roof rack really did it in.  I opted to not go fly Saturday, too hard on the shoulder.
I mentioned that we were getting a lot done and that included some get togethers.  We had a great lunch and visit with Brett and Sandra.  A nice dinner with John and Diane, and Ted and Patty.  It's hard to believe that after talking about this for so long, the time has finally come where we are leaving the area, essentially for good.  It was bittersweet, we will miss being so close to special friends.
We drove down to Alabama to the Escapee park for a few weeks, because our reservation in Florida doesn't begin until April 1st.  The Escapee's have a policy of not allowing reservations, but they will never turn you away.  When we arrived the inn was full!  We had to boondock for one night waiting for a site to become available.  Boondock means no hook ups of any kind, no electric, water, or sewer.  We want to include more and more boondocking in our future, but haven't done much of it.  We have spent most of our time in campgrounds, easy and the ability to make reservations on a set vacation made sense.  But on the other hand, we have seen some absolutely gorgeous places to boondock, mostly out west, usually out in the middle of nowhere, with incredible views and few if any neighbors.  Peace and quiet and beauty.
It was just one night, but it allowed us to work with a, new to us, system on the coach, AGS.  AGS stands for automatic generator start.  It can be programmed to start the generator to charge the batteries, or to provide AC power to run the air conditioners.  We had never used it before.  A bit of a learning curve, but we are figuring it out.  You set a bottom threshold for your house battery bank that is approximately equivalent to 50% of capacity.  We have 4 big 12 volt AGM house batteries, and with AGM's, the 50% mark is about 12.2 volts.  So we set the AGS to start the generator when the batteries got to 12.3 volts.  Batteries can be drained below 50%, but it cuts into their life.  We didn't use the other parameter as the evening was cool and comfortable so we didn't need air conditioning.  But you have the ability to set an inside temperature that will start the genny and start the AC's.  Pretty cool.  Also a lot of parks have a generator quiet time when they don't want any generators running and we also have the ability to set that in as well.  We will be using this more and more.
We're excited as we will be on the move more and more as we ease into this new segment of our life.