Off to Texas!

We loaded our possessions in a 26' Penske rental truck on Monday and Tuesday with the help of our friend Rick from the Wolverine Four Wheelers and headed to Texas.  Rick drove the truck with Lee navigating, and Cec followed along behind in the Town and Country minivan.  We flat-towed the Jeep Wrangler behind the truck.

We spend the first night at Hartland, MI near where Rick lives, and he joined us Wednesday morning for the trip.  We decided to take I75 south out of the Detroit area so Cec could stop at her favorite Goodwill store in Troy, OH.  Cec loves to discover treasures at second hand stores. We then continued through Cincinnati, Louisville and Nashville.  We stopped at a small town just west of Nashville for the night.

On Thursday we drove through Memphis and Little Rock.  After stopping in Texarkana, Texas for dinner, we decided to drive on and reached our trailer at Riverside where Cec's mom, Joanne, lives about 11:30 PM.   Joanne was in Nebraska for a funeral, and we had to get everything turned on before we got to bed.  We did not set the alarm clock the next morning.

We got up  on Friday and took the truck down to the new home site to unload it in our storage building.  Our builder called and offered to send his crew over to help us.  Three guys arrived in about an hour, and we got the truck unloaded in a couple of hours.  We need to unload a small freezer and sewing machine at Joanne's trailer, and we can then turn the truck in.

My old college friend Darrell will be visiting us on Saturday and Sunday.  Late Sunday we take Rick to the airport for the trip back to Michigan.

It is great to be home, even though our new house will not be completed until spring.  We will live in the trailer with Joanne and in our motor home, which is parked adjacent the mobile home.