No pictures…yet.
Please forgive; I want to post pictures of the house….but it is not exactly put
together yet. Meaning our garage still has most of our stuff in it and the
living room still has bags from basic training that Tim has yet to unpack. On
the bright side the bedroom is done and organized so we are making some
progress. Pictures soon…I want to say in the next week or so.
The trip across
country was not too bad. We made really good time and once we got the dogs
settled down it was fine. We went through AZ (of course), New Mexico, Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and
finally into Delaware. It rained from Kentucky until we got to Maryland. I took
2 pictures and they were of the dog. I had every intention of taking pictures…..but
then I didn’t.
The only trouble
came when we got to Maryland. The night before we decided it was getting late
and we should stop. We were only 4 hours from Delaware, but it was 8pm and the roads
nestled between the mountains were getting dangerous. The first problems came
when we got off the interstate. In every other state when night approached we
simply pulled off the road and picked one of the many places to stay. Maryland
proved tricky…..we had to travel about 7-8 miles off the main highway to find a
place and they….didn’t accept pets! So we traveled another 3 miles to a Best
Western. More expensive, but pet friendly. Exhausted from the 12 hours of
driving and the being lost, we went to bed expecting to get up early and be in
Delaware by 10 am the following day. We awoke at dawn, actually before dawn at
5:30am. Ate a quick breakfast, packed our stuff, took the dogs on a walk and
packed the dogs. We were on the road by 6:45. We went to turn down a side road
so that we could turn around (we missed the road that would take us back to the
highway) when the tongue connecting the trailer to the moving truck broke. Completely
broke. Lucky for us we had pulled onto a side road. We called budget who stated
they had to send somebody out to verify that it was actually broken and that we
did not break it (even with Tim telling them they should bring another trailer
because it was indeed broken) their policy however is to look first and then go
get the stuff to fix it. So we waited 2 hours and 15 minutes for a guy to come
out and say the following :”It’s broke and you didn’t break it.” Seriously? I
was so mad. So the guy unhooked the trailer called budget and then said his
goodbyes to us telling us that budget would be in touch. After about 45 min of
silence we called budget…who stated they were working on finding us a trailer. While
waiting we decided to take the dogs on a walk when a really nice older couple
came outside to talk to us. They invited us into their home. The wife gave us
lunch and then dessert and then keep trying to get us to eat snacks. The
husband loved our dogs. They sat with us for several hours talking and when
they had to run errands we got up to leave, they insisted that we stay there
and watch television. We protested, I mean we are strangers and they wanted to
leave us alone in their house? But they insisted and we relented. At noon I
called budget and they stated that a trailer would arrive in 2 hours. At 2 we
still did not have one. Tim called and found out one had never been sent. They
said one would arrive in an 1 and 45 min. We were furious. Finally after
waiting all day we got our trailer at 3:45pm. We were able to leave by 4:15 and
were on the road again. We stopped another night. We made it to Dover by 11ish
that Thursday.
You’re amazing if
you read all this. Our first week will be written about in another post.
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