Three Thousand, One Hundred Eighty Seven Miles Later...
7:10 AMI'm finally at my new home!!! Well, sorta. We are living in yet another hotel, but the kids (and dogs) and I made our loooong trek across this beautiful country into a state that I'm already falling in love with!
A quick recap for those who need it:
1. Hubby is in the Navy
2. Lived in Japan for four years.
3. Earthquake hits Japan, kiddos and I evacuate right before our scheduled move.
4. Stayed in Virginia with my mom for a month.
5. Drove three thousand, one hundred eighty seven miles to the Seattle area.
6. I am sitting in a hotel blogging with silly numbered lists, watching years old Zach and Cody reruns.
We won't be getting a house for probably a month or so, and in the meantime, we will continue to call ourselves nomads. At least we are at the end of our unpredictable adventure, and hopefully when Lance comes "home" in a month, he will have a house to come home to (or almost, at least).
I was dreading this drive considering the longest I've ever travelled alone was probably 3-4 hours. I've taken several 18-20 hour trips down south to either Florida, Louisiana, or Mi'sippi (as my native dad calls it), but I've always traded off driving. Luckily, the three of us seemed to resign ourselves to the fact that we were in this for the long haul, and none of us seemed to get bored or tired of the trip. Other than extreme thunderstorms that forced us to sleep in a truck stop in the Appalachian Mountains, and an oncoming blizzard that forced us to stay two nights in Fargo, North Dakota, it was a pretty good trip with miraculously well behaved kids and dogs the whole five days (four days actually driving, not too shabby, eh?)
Below is an iPhone photo summary of our drive!
This was in Wisconsin, where we pulled over for gas/restrooms/lunch break. It was amazingly gorgeous outside, so I decided to take a break from driving and have a tailgating party at a Pizza Hut. I took out the dogs' blankets, toys, and bones so they could bask in the sunlight, tethered them to the truck, and...
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