Merle’s Miles for MS

The Support Team

Jan In Van
Jan in what was to be the support vehicle before we got the used RV.
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The RV
Our "new" RV.
Brandy
Brandy, the trip mascot, doing what he does best.

My trip will be supported by my wife, Jan, driving our used 1999 Dodge conversion van RV. She will be carrying spare parts, food, clothing, cleaning supplies, etc. We will be living in the (tiny) RV for about three monthns, counting the trip home. Jan is not excited about spending two months in it but, hey, Debbie Reynolds did it, didn't she? Jan would prefer that I didn’t take this trip at all (at least in this manner), but she has resigned herself to helping me. She has done a lot of things for me in the 45 years that we have been married.

Also part of the support team will be our dog Brandy, a Heinz 57. He will be 15 years old at the time of the trip and is smart enough to have trained us very well during those 15 years. We hate to make him ride that long but we hate even more to force him to stay somewhere else during the waning months of his life.