Made it to Florida!

Hi everyone! We made it to Florida, record time! We got in yesterday at 8:30. I would be posting pictures, but I left the camera at Mom's house and it has all the pictures, ooops. It was so hot on the way down, we just kept on the road. We did finish our book though and have moved on to the next book in the series. Is it bad we can't remember which "Dead" book we are listening to? I think this afternoon will be full of swimming in the pool with the dogs and spending time with Mom. This morning we dropped into Panera to do some business and update you all on our progress. We were shocked when we came through Jacksonville last night with how big it is getting and how I-95 seems to have just moved. I guess that's what happens when they work on the road for years and years!

So off we go to train our bodies to deal with more heat in preparation for Arizona. I PROMISE we will eventually post some pictures 80)

An update to first stop

So last night I was REALLY tired, so I didn't put any of the fun part of the day in my post. We started listening to Dead as a Doornail, by Charlain Harris. It is one of the books that was made into the HBO special, True Blood. So we stop listening periodically to discuss, what happens next etc. We started out pretty well, we did miss an exit in NYC trying to get to the George Washington Bridge and took a detour though the Bronx. As is common in NYC it only took us about 3 minutes to see something unusual. We saw a full size pick-up truck painted with murals and it had flashing lights. In the bed of the truck was a tow bar and it had an old beat up car attached to the back. I wonder if it wasn't a repo truck. I wanted a picture, but it was gone before I even could reach my camera!

For today we are going to get as far as we can, mapquest says 12 hours to Florida, so who knows we might make it there today! I think we are going to finish our book and start Janet Evonavich, Sixteen (its so new I don't even know the whole title!)

I am hoping to find a book or listing of "road side" attractions to follow us the rest of the trip. Anyone have any ideas? I want to know where things like the worlds largest ball of yard are, I bet Tony might enjoy the worlds biggest roll of duct tape or something!

First stop!

So the last people I saw in Norwich were the school psychologists. I really wish them luck in figuring out their assignments for next year. They gave me a warm send off and Tony and I were on our way. We were blessed by relatively little traffic and some adrenaline that kept us driving late into the night. We checked into a hotel around 10:30 in Thornburg, VA. We made it through New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland and part of Virginia today. I looked it up, looks like 400+ miles. It is a very good start. I did get some pictures, but I am too tired to work that out so you will have to wait until later. The girls did a great job of mostly laying down and keeping calm, but now it seems Mica is awake and playful. I hope we don't have neighbors below us!

Off to bed for the two of us! I think we have an early morning, at least the hotel serves breakfast!

The beginning

Hi everyone, welcome to the new blog. I intend to use this to put up some great pictures and share our adventure with you all. This is my first blog and my first thing on this site, so I will hopefully get better at making it pretty looking. Today we are officially moved out of our house. I said good bye to some good friends and amazing people. I hope to see many of them visit me in the future. If I made this many good friends here, I can only imagine that there are more great people in the world to find and know. We are very tired from all the cleaning and arranging, but we are ready for our next adventure!