We kicked off our Alabama leg in Huntsville at NASA, and for once it felt like one of those “this is too good to be true” road days. Bob has wanted to see the Saturn V rocket since he was a kid (and honestly, the scale of that thing is wild), and I had my own questions like… why is NASA in Alabama? Turns out Huntsville is “Rocket City” because a huge chunk of the moon-rocket story was designed right there. We wandered through rockets, shuttles, the SR-71 Blackbird, and even found that freeze-dried astronaut ice cream Bob remembered being way better as a kid. Then Alabama humbled us fast. We tried boondocking at a Cracker Barrel in brutal humidity with the windows open, and it was the worst night’s sleep—random loudspeaker announcements, trash trucks, and a grease trap vac truck at the crack of dawn. After breakfast, Bob finally tackled a van fix that’s been haunting us for years: the license plate light alarm he caused when installing the Aluminus tire carrier. He rewired it back to stock (and yes, cut a $90 harness in half) and finally got rid of that dash warning. And then the real meltdown: we tried to run the AC in the heat and suddenly lost basically everything—no 12V, no water pump, solar not charging. We hit our limit, bought a multimeter, found the main Lithionics battery fuse blown, and learned the hard truth: the fuse was undersized (150A where the diagram calls for 250A). After a 140-mile sprint to West Marine for an MRBF fuse, we were back up and running—exhausted, but grateful.