fanrgs: Thank you for all the great suggestions. DH keeps reminding me that we ought to set up a travel plan, but with the holidays around the bend, I'm not in his same head space yet.
K3WE: Personally, I'm a bit more adventurous than DH, and don't mind a little discomfort or uncertainty - all things pass. However, my life becomes miserable if DH is miserable. So, if he prefers to take the easy way, I certainly won't stand in the way. (Secrets to a happy marriage ...) So, I guess we'll see how it ends up. Either way, it's nice to know that we have options. Thank you for your input on usability of our RV during the cold.
Also, I'm not sure we could get to your latitude in a day -- we are up near the Canadian/Montana border corner of ND. We generally can't get anywhere south in a day! Neither of us likes to drive after dark (even in our regular vehicles), and I think that since we start out so far west in ND, we would be traversing down a lot of higher altitude areas on our road south. But, since neither of us has ever been down that way (newbies to traveling - remember "ranch hostage"), we don't have any experiential knowledge of what the interstate is like along that route. (Probably going south on 25.)
Everyone: Thank You so much for all your great input! I am really excited (and a bit nervous) to take our first trek south.
