Preparations....

Other than the blindingly obvious (such as packing), I made up a list of things that I felt needed to be done before we hit the road:

Finish rebuilding my fence that blew down in January.
Thoroughly clean and wax the car that we are driving.
Put new tires on the car.
New brakes, if necessary.
Have the car serviced and add new windshield wiper blades.
Update the software and maps on my Garmin GPS.
Collect some interesting books to take along.
Sort through a couple hundred CD's of music to separate out about 30 discs to take along.
Contact the tenants in our rentals to let them know we'll be gone for a while.

Some of these tasks were obviously easy, but some became surprisingly difficult.