We did our first US road trip in 1970, between college and first job/graduate school, driving from Miami to Boston, up to Maine, across Canada past the Lakes, then the West, California, down to Arizona, up to Colorado, and then back to Boston. All in the summer and all in a very minimal 1968 un-air-conditioned Dodge van camper. Favorite songs, FWIW, were Ride, Captain, Ride, Midnight at the Oasis, and In the Summertime. Or maybe those were some other road trips. I never listened to the lyrics much. Too much engine noise and the windows down. And it was AM radio. We've lost track of how many more such trips we've made in the past 53 years, but a few are recorded on this blog. Explore the search box.
Anyhow, on July 24th, we departed Missoula and headed east, mostly I-90 and its many Montana memories, before dipping into Wyoming, then South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and finally our new temporary home, North Carolina. En route we spent a couple nights with college friends Tawana and Wes in Fayetteville and then a couple more with Vicki's sister Marie and husband Norm in Knoxville. We got to Cary in the evening of August 1st, spent the night at daughter Rebecca's, and then drove to our new, as yet unseen, apartment, to begin two long days of unloading. The trip was without difficulty--no accidents nor breakdowns nor surprises of any sort--but not one of our more memorable road trips.
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Picking up our truck at Clark Fork Storage...nearly new, 63,000 miles,
good tires...the most pressing question was whether we could get all
our stuff in it |
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| We did! |
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With room enough to pick up a bistro table and chairs and a Costco
sofa bed along the way...ever watchful for bargains... |
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Passing through the heartland of these United Shit-holes
of Trumpistan, we didn't take a lot of pix... |
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| Barbie premiere somewhere near Kansas City |
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| With Wes and Tawana |
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| Who were duly impressed with our Arkansas U-Haul |
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| Crossing the Mississippi; or was it the Nile, at Memphis... |
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| With Norm and Marie, who never seem to get tired of us |
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| At the North Carolina welcome center |
We also unloaded our Cary storage unit
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Oh, my! Glad you got it all unpacked. Now the fun begins!
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