Wonder Lake

We are just 30 miles from Bill's family in Wonder Lake, IL. Very exciting! We'll be stopping for 2 nights to visit and then on to Michigan on Saturday afternoon. We left Ames, IA early this morning after an overnight with our friend, Valerie. She and Alesha were a day ahead of us into Ames and found a fun little Brasilian restaurant where we had dinner last night.

Yesterday was a little stressful - one of the wheels on our rental trailer (current home to our truck, bikes, and kayaks) started smoking on the freeway as we drove through Des Moines. Turned out to be a broken bering which required a tow truck and a trip to one of the local Uhaul shops for a replacement trailer. The whole process took about 3 hours but, for the most part, was pretty seamless. Folks were super helpful, we broke down in an area that was very visible and close to service, and it was the middle of a weekday. Could have been much, much worse.

Will write more when we hit the road again on Saturday!

Day 2: Happy Anniversary

We're in Rawlins, WY for the night. Big day - 588 miles from Battle Mountain, NV, across Utah and through Salt Lake City and into the middle of Wyoming. Nothing too exciting happened except it is our 2nd anniversary!! Just had a decent dinner and the rest of our Risque (started it last night). Yum!

The hope is to get into the middle of Nebraska tomorrow...

Day One: Move from CA to MI

Well, we're headed east. It's the first of August and we're moving to East Lansing, MI. After a big day of loading an extremely full truck, we set off this morning at ~7am from Oakes College. Some hot drinks and bagels and we were off...slowly and nervously in our 17 foot Uhaul truck and trailer (holding our Toyota stuffed with 6 bikes and topped with 4 kayaks). We're not messing around!

We made it safely over the 17 and through Bay Area traffic, arriving at the top of Donner Pass on I-80 at 1:30. After a quick lunch in Sparks, NV, we pushed on to Battle Mountain which we'll call home for the night.

I think it's finally settling in for both of us that we're really moving.
More stories and pics to come!