Hey Jeff, I'm a TM newbie and went on my maiden voyage a little over a week ago. One thing I did after buying my TM was do a lot of reading/asking questions on this forum and then I created my own checklist of how to do everything. That took some stress out of the first trip for me (I was doing everything by myself as my two dogs weren't much help). I've never had a travel trailer before and all the camping my ex and I did was tent camping.
Anyway, I found having a checklist for everthing helped. I still made some mistakes... Worst one was getting in a hurry backing TM into my driveway and failing to negotiate the retaining wall
But, I'm learning from my mistakes and looking forward to my next trip the end of this month.
Hope you have a great maiden voyage!