[larryflew]

Have done these trips for years. Leave MN end of November so already winterized. Go a long day first day (wife shares the driving) but likely still night temps below freezing. Add heated hose and run normally with fridge and furnace on. Don't use electric heater or our heat pump AC until in no freeze zone as furnace is the only thing ducted to the basement. Coming home is usually earl April so I winterize on last stop heading north. Typically Iowa but can be farther south some years.

Only thing I turn off when traveling is the gas side of the water heater.