On The Road Again... Finally

It was a dark and stormy night...  Well, it seems its always a dark and stormy night the evening before we head out on a long trip.   The rain has been coming down in buckets on and off for hours.  We have been dodging the rain as we finish up packing.   

But I think we are finally ready!  After months of planning we are as ready as we are going to be.  The rest we leave to one of the Walmarts we will inevitably pass along the drive!

Here in this picture you can see Daniel with the camper, the bikes, and the car.  To allow us to take bikes we added a bike rack to the rear hitch.   Under that tarp are 4 bikes!  It extends the car hitch about another foot, not much, but its going to take some getting used to as we drive down the road.  The bikes bounce around a little and the car now sticks out further than ever....  Watch out everyone, a freight train is rolling down the road.

Daniel's friend Alex and his parents just stopped over to drop off his final things.  He will be back first thing in the morning.

Missy and Sammi are finishing off their packing for South Dakota.  I will drop them off at 4:15 in the morning.  Then instead of trying to go back to bed, we will load up and head out on the road.  We hope to be in Ohio by early afternoon.   Thursday's drive will be one of the longest on our journey.  Exactly 400 miles from our door step to the campground in Ohio.   I'm estimating a good 8 or 9 hours.  Maybe longer depending on the drive over the mountains in Pa.   The drive over the Pa. mountains is probably the toughest part of our drive the entire trip.   They may not be tall, but they are rugged.  

Look for more pictures once I finally get the camera out and figure out how to use it and better yet, transfer the pictures from the camera to my iPad.   Missy is the usual photographer!

To bed, then one the road...

P.S. as someone has pointed out, I'm not catching all the spelling mistakes.  The iPad blog post app I'm using does not seem to have a spell checker that I can find.  So.... Apologies ahead of time for taking some poetic license.   I will try to catch what I can...