We made it to Grand Rapids. We'll spend a few days here, visiting Ken's father and readying ourselves for the big push west. We suppressing the urge to drive by our old house but briefly discussed eventually coming back here - someday, and then only for a portion of each year. Right now we're relishing living small, or living large but without the trappings. Tomorrow we consolidate down to one car; the Subaru goes to Ken's sister so we'll put its contents (from Stamford) into our Grand Rapids storage unit. Everyone should have a storage unit in the Midwest. Infinite convenience, just when you need it. We're thinking we ought to have one somewhere in the South as well: we had one in Texas, but maybe something in Alabama would make more sense?
Exhaustion is beginning to seem a way of life, but we can sleep late tomorrow and face no driving. It's looking better.
Lucca and Marco were separated today: Lucca with me, Marco with Ken. Ken noted that Marco kept looking for me as if I might be running along side the car. Lucca was enchanted to ride and not have Marco sitting on his head in order to be high enough to look out the window.
You would never guess, reading so far, that this is a blog about traveling to California. But so far it's been about tying loose ends, meeting deadlines attending to details both great and small, juggling dwindling amounts of time and then spending an awful lot of time behind the wheel, alone. From now on it will be new, or relatively new territory, and we'll all be traveling together. Two drivers, two dogs and less driving per day. And... forecasts for snow and ice until Christmas. Too late to turn back.
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Lucca and Marco were separated today: Lucca with me, Marco with Ken. Ken noted that Marco kept looking for me as if I might be running along side the car. Lucca was enchanted to ride and not have Marco sitting on his head in order to be high enough to look out the window.
You would never guess, reading so far, that this is a blog about traveling to California. But so far it's been about tying loose ends, meeting deadlines attending to details both great and small, juggling dwindling amounts of time and then spending an awful lot of time behind the wheel, alone. From now on it will be new, or relatively new territory, and we'll all be traveling together. Two drivers, two dogs and less driving per day. And... forecasts for snow and ice until Christmas. Too late to turn back.
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