Saturday, November 20, 2010

Traveling Across the United States


For those of you who did not notice, CJ and I moved to South Carolina. It was an AMAZING adventure that we really don't want to do again.
We rented a Budget truck (don't use this company) and a tow hauler for the car and we packed up, threw the dogs in and drove 2100 miles to the Naval Weapons Station.
To start our trip I called and asked if the truck had a bench seat, I was told yes, but it was not so my poor doggies ended up in a whole between the seats. They were squished, but it was half the time they were both down there and the other half Gage was on someones lap. He freaked out about everything, rumble strips and windshield wipers. We gave him Benadryl, but it really didn't seem to work. He was a complete wreck. Abby on the other hand would lay down and fall asleep with no issues at all.



Along the way we saw so many interesting things and I only took pictures of a few. Along the way we tried to take pictures of all the welcome signs, but we missed New Mexico's and Georgia's and Oklahoma didn't have one! I know you really could care less, but I thought it was fun.

In New Mexico not much happened, it just took forever to get across the state. Oh we lost the gas cap in this state somewhere. Then at dusk we entered into Texas and stayed at some no name motel in Amarillo TX.This picture was outside of Amarillo TX, they claim it to be the tallest cross in this hemisphere. We also saw snow on the ground in TX.Like I said before no sign for Oklahoma. I was bummed. Our second night on the road we stayed in Little Rock Arkansas, It did not take very long to get across the state and thankfully nothing took place here either.
Tennessee was a short trip all of about 10 minutes. We had to change major highways here and we just missed downtown Memphis by a couple miles. We did drive over the Mississippi River here, the bridge was huge and daunting in a truck.


After Driving across 3 states we finally made it to Georgia, which brought the only rain we saw the entire time. We stayed just outside of Atlanta and relaxed to think we had only one more day to go. We missed the Georgia sign.
Finally we reached South Carolina! We had finally made it and we did it with only one issue, losing the gas cap.

This trip was quite an adventure and we tried hard to stay kind to each other instead of being negative towards each other. It seemed we were only pains to each other when we were trying to get to our hotel.
We are so thankful to be blessed with a great and safe trip! We could not have asked for a better uneventful travel!

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