The Trip Across the Country

Vacation was over,

and now it was back to work.

Carly and Brandon hired Kyle to

move their household back to Florida.

We went to their house and met Brandon... he drove

us over to the Penske place and we picked up his

20' moving truck.

(This is Carly's sister-in-law Caroline and baby ... ?)

We got back and started loading the truck.

(Well, Kyle and Brandon and Carly's brother John...)

Carly has been having contractions (she's due in October)

and had hurt her back the day before, so I sat with her

and chatted - kept her busy while her Aunt took 

care of their 2 year old son Benny.

About 10:00 their friends all showed up and they

got the truck loaded in a hurry!

As often happens, the truck was bigger than necessary,

but better to have too much room rather than 

too much STUFF...

Once they got it all loaded, Brandon's Dad headed out

to get some ratchet straps (and lunch) so we sat and

visited with Brandon's family.

They are a nice bunch!

Kyle, Brandon and his Mom got it all secured

and then we headed out.

 Time for the long haul...

We took the southern route,

down through Monticello, UT.

We saw some interesting rock formations.

The truck was brand new, it only had 2,900 miles on it!

Kyle had an air ride seat and it had all the bells and whistles.
(Which were actually a HUGE pain in the neck...)

It sensed when you went over the line.

Even when there WASN'T a line...

and did a warning chime,

which scared you EVERY TIME.

If you look carefully you can see the wind farm... 
this went on for MILES!

It also "read" the speed limit signs and yelled if you exceeded.

Including the speed signs on exits you were PASSING!

(not exiting)

But it DID keep a constant 3 second distance between

you and the vehicle in front of you, which Kyle liked.

The passenger side was a bench seat and none of the 

seats reclined beyond the 90 degree mark.

It was a little like sitting on a cushy dining room chair

for nearly 4 days.

We left Logan about 3:30 on Saturday afternoon

and we pulled into our driveway at 6:15 Tuesday evening.

Kyle drove LONG hours each day.

We stopped in a hotel each night and got a good sleep

and then headed back out.

We don't eat on the road.

We nibbled on crackers and that was about it.

We just don't get hungry...

And we listened to the first 3 books of the Harry Potter series

on my Kindle (computer generated voice... you just have 

to laugh when you hear the way she pronounces some of

the words... LOL)

When I travel like that, it's like I enter a fugue state.

Those days don't really exist...

Anyhow.

We were HOME!

Rod (and the dogs) was happy to have us home!

And then I had to be back in the ZoomRoom at 6:30.

Back to the "real world".

Thanks for traveling along with us!

Tomorrow... back to current stuff.

More wind farm...