This blog is dedicated to my brother, who after hearing our plans for our trip simply said, “You should write a blog.” With that the anti-blogger was converted.
Preparation
The craziness began only two weeks ago when we not only decided to take an eight week trip to California, but also to put our house up for rent to pay for our stay. With that decision I dropped out of my life (apologies to all my friends) and began a frenzy of preparation. Our plan was to be completely finished with all preparations Saturday June 22, and then to have Sunday to relax, see people at my good friend Jodi’s wedding, and then get up and leave early Monday for Abilene, TX to see Granddad and Grandma and Grandmother. But obviously not having filled our quotient of craziness we spent a lot of Saturday debating about whether or not to buy a new car for the journey because our Suburban had started to give us trouble, and as Jeff put it, he’d been thinking about it now for two years and there wasn’t any better time to have a reliable car than before starting a 10 day treck to California. So instead of spending Sunday night celebrating with my friends I was in a car dealership making an offer on a new-to-us Suburban. Jeffrey said, "You are supposed to get a little excited. We are getting a new car." I'm glad we did, but I was sad to miss the wedding. We spent all day Monday cleaning house and packing, and got up Tuesday for Abilene.
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