Day 1 (Jacksonville to Pensacola)
It's hard to pack for 34 days!
There is no such thing as leaving on time for long road trips.
It isn't easy setting up camp in the dark.
Day 2 (Pensacola to Rustin, Louisiana)
Resident campers like to give you their unsolicited "wisdom".
Dogs like to run around without leashes.
RV parks don't like it when dogs are not on leashes.
Trailers have a tail swing when you turn and new drivers may hit small trees on the way out.
Trees can withstand impacts pretty well.
The road quality in Mississippi sucks!
Bikes like to jump around on crappy highways.
It is smart to lock bikes to racks so they don't fall of.
I am pretty smart.
Day 3 (Rustin to Dallas)
There are some places in the world that don't have cell coverage or wifi.
Living "disconnected" is nice as well as stange/helpless feeling.
I remember little of life without smart phones.
I thought my memory was pretty good.
People are generally extremely stingy when it comes to letting people in during a forced lane closure.
You are dependent on the few courteous people in the world when you drive a house around.
Everything looks pretty much the same size in Texas as it does anywhere else.
We are having a blast. Jessica will post the stories later, these are just a few observations from me the last few days.
Until next time
... Bryan
What an awesome summer trip!! The girls are going to remember this for the rest of their lives and tell lots of stories about it. Make it interesting :-)
ReplyDeletePat on the back for driving a house! A few trees being hit are better than a car...lol! The roads in Oklahoma are horrible too...hopefully you won't travel that way.
ReplyDeleteNo Oklahoma driving for us.
ReplyDeleteSo far, so good. Today is our first relax and sought see days.
No driving for me :)
Sought=sight
DeleteDid the bikes actually fall off, or just come close? And if they fell off, did they get destroyed by an 18-wheeler? :-)
ReplyDeleteThe bikes not fall off. The end bike fell off the bar, but the lock caught it. We pulled over and tightened the lock so that wouldn't happen again.
DeleteTrees may stand stronger than brick walls. I do NOT suggest you try to find out.
ReplyDeleteGood thing you locked those bikes! You would have had some unhappy girls without bikes for the summer.
Texas has rude drivers with bad habits. It takes forever to get anywhere in that state because everything is so far apart. If you're headed to Amarillo, I expect the Cadillac Ranch to be crazy this week. The financer, Stanley March 3, died this week AND Saturday is the 40th anniversary (birthday?) of the ranch.
We just found out he died, but i have no reference point as to what is crazy. There were a bunch of people staring in disappointment at all the cars foot deep in mud. We needed it anyway, there isn't going to be to many opportunities to experience it.
DeleteWe still have the bikes. We haven't used them yet, but we still have them.