The Move To Wisconsin
Well, I guess I have a lot of updating to do so maybe some time in the future I will get to present day stuff. It took forever for the cable company to get out here to install everything and then I was busy doing papers for work.
We had gotten everything ready to go the day before so all James and my dad had to do was fill the truck. It still took James and my dad 6 hours to fill it up. We almost did not get it all in. We had to stuff it full to the top stacking everything. We got the 26 ft diesel truck thinking we would have extra room but we did not want to get one that would be too small. I had no idea we had so much stuff and that was after the yard sale.
Then the car filled up and we had no room for the suitcases we had set aside for the trip so I only got to change clothes once during the trip and I ended up wearing a baseball hat and no makeup. Yes, that is a big deal to me. LOL
Well after showering, getting dressed and taking off it was already 3pm. James was in a big hurry to get going since we were behind schedule so we still left that day. We drove an hour and then stopped to eat. Then drove another hour and a half and he was too tired so we had to get a hotel room already.
We were wide awake at 2am so we headed out early. Between the dogs, kids, and me drinking caffeine to keep going we stopped about every 2 hours to pee. We got on a weird schedule of stopping at hotels early and going to bed at 8pm and then driving at 2am. We were trying to make up for time we lost the first day but we kept getting too tired to keep driving past 6pm.
Driving at 2am helped with traffic though. The third day I started feeling sick and run down. We started to get stressed and annoyed with each other on top of it. James thought I was just stressed and having panic attacks all day because I kept calling him telling him I needed to make stops because I felt like I could not breath and needed to puke.
By the fourth day James was sick too and realized I really was sick. We spent most of the fourth day rotating driving for 2 hours and then sleeping at rest stops. We were both too tired and sick to drive very long. On top of it all we kept having to dodge storms. There were a lot of trucks flipped over along the way in Iowa. When we got to Illinois the storms were right behind us so we had to keep in front of them.
Finally we hit Wisconsin and just about 1 hour from the end of the trip the storm caught up with us. The interstate was only going 40 mph and it ended up getting so bad I could not see enough to feel safe so I pulled off at a rest stop and sat for 30 minutes until it passed. The windshield on the truck was straight up and down so James could see and continue on. He met me at the hotel.
The trip was finally over at 8pm the 4th day. According to Mapquest it was a 28 hour drive.
We left Tuesday 3pm and got there Friday 8pm. Well, Children are now calling me so I will do more updates later.
Oh yeah, and just my luck the 1st and 2nd hotels internet didn't work. The 3rd I was too sick and just slept, and then the 4th did not have any.
We had gotten everything ready to go the day before so all James and my dad had to do was fill the truck. It still took James and my dad 6 hours to fill it up. We almost did not get it all in. We had to stuff it full to the top stacking everything. We got the 26 ft diesel truck thinking we would have extra room but we did not want to get one that would be too small. I had no idea we had so much stuff and that was after the yard sale.
Then the car filled up and we had no room for the suitcases we had set aside for the trip so I only got to change clothes once during the trip and I ended up wearing a baseball hat and no makeup. Yes, that is a big deal to me. LOL
Well after showering, getting dressed and taking off it was already 3pm. James was in a big hurry to get going since we were behind schedule so we still left that day. We drove an hour and then stopped to eat. Then drove another hour and a half and he was too tired so we had to get a hotel room already.
We were wide awake at 2am so we headed out early. Between the dogs, kids, and me drinking caffeine to keep going we stopped about every 2 hours to pee. We got on a weird schedule of stopping at hotels early and going to bed at 8pm and then driving at 2am. We were trying to make up for time we lost the first day but we kept getting too tired to keep driving past 6pm.
Driving at 2am helped with traffic though. The third day I started feeling sick and run down. We started to get stressed and annoyed with each other on top of it. James thought I was just stressed and having panic attacks all day because I kept calling him telling him I needed to make stops because I felt like I could not breath and needed to puke.
By the fourth day James was sick too and realized I really was sick. We spent most of the fourth day rotating driving for 2 hours and then sleeping at rest stops. We were both too tired and sick to drive very long. On top of it all we kept having to dodge storms. There were a lot of trucks flipped over along the way in Iowa. When we got to Illinois the storms were right behind us so we had to keep in front of them.
Finally we hit Wisconsin and just about 1 hour from the end of the trip the storm caught up with us. The interstate was only going 40 mph and it ended up getting so bad I could not see enough to feel safe so I pulled off at a rest stop and sat for 30 minutes until it passed. The windshield on the truck was straight up and down so James could see and continue on. He met me at the hotel.
The trip was finally over at 8pm the 4th day. According to Mapquest it was a 28 hour drive.
We left Tuesday 3pm and got there Friday 8pm. Well, Children are now calling me so I will do more updates later.
Oh yeah, and just my luck the 1st and 2nd hotels internet didn't work. The 3rd I was too sick and just slept, and then the 4th did not have any.
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