Road Trip 2018 Recap

I pre­vi­ous­ly wrote that we were going on an impromp­tu road trip. I was plan­ning on doing updates here as our road trip pro­gressed. That did­n’t work out as planned. We kept so busy and I did­n’t end up pulling my lap­top out very much at all. The one mem­o­rable time that I did was to edit my wife’s first pod­cast episode! (I’m so proud of her.)

Kenieshiear and I were up the entire night before we left. We packed up for our­selves and the chil­dren, and then pack­ing up the car. We dri­ve a huge boat of an SUV, with three rows and a large car­go area (even with the third row up), and we also had a pod on the roof for more stuff. The car was packed to the brim. A crate for our dogs took up a lot of space in the back.

The plan was to get on the road around 5 am, but we were way too tired to leave that ear­ly. We end­ed up get­ting hit­ting the road clos­er to 10 or 11. The first leg of the trip was to Springfield, MO, where we had an Air BnB wait­ing for us. Total on-the-road time was just over 10 hours, but because we had to stop often, and every stop last­ed at least an hour, the dri­ve took much longer, and we arrived quite late.

The chil­dren were fan­tas­tic, though. They were so well-behaved, and they had a lot of fun lis­ten­ing to music, play­ing games and such. As it got lat­er, they all slept well in their car seats. The dogs did well, also; there were sev­er­al times that I for­got that they were even back there.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *