I'm breaking my books-only blog rule to write a little bit about the Great Adventure, as it's so been dubbed, on which my husband and I currently are.
Yesterday, we left Gainesville, our home for the past 3 years, to move cross-country to Los Angeles, or more specifically, North Hollywood. This move has been a long-time coming: 2 years this August. It almost doesn't feel real yet that we're on this major road trip, I'm sure in no small part because I'm writing this from my sister's home in Pensacola. Once we get back on I-10 west of her home, a stretch of the road I've never been on, it'll probably hit us a little harder.
But then again, yesterday evening was as real as it got. We ended up having to back up the 22-foot Penske (which Elliott named Lucille, then realized the name didn't fit and switched it to Bonnie, in honor of the second named storm of the season) with an SUV on a trailer attached to the back, down a dirt road that's maybe 200 feet long. (Why, you ask? ONE, SINGLE low-hanging wire on Danielle's property that would have snapped had we kept driving forward.) Backing up was a seemingly endless game of missing mailboxes and not tearing down people's tree branches. We succeeded at the former and failed at the latter. By the end of the ordeal, I was a hot mess, but the Penske was safe at the opening to the dirt road and can now be pulled straight out when it's time to hit the road again in a couple of hours.
Thankfully, my sister had an awesome spaghetti-and-meatball dinner ready for us when we got here, and my niece Adalee was all smiles despite an ear infection. We were ravenous, having only had a McDonald's breakfast hours earlier and a hodgepodge snack of beef jerky (thanks Lanette, Lauren, and co.) and crackers and cheese (thanks, Mom Morgan).
It looks like we'll be driving in rain the rest of the day. Next stop: Baton Rouge, LA, where we'll finally get to meet little Theo and see Ryan and Sarah Francis after 2 (too) long years away.
Four days and counting until we're in our new place!
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