We are surviving our trek West with dogs, Guinea pigs and plants... oh yes and our six children!
So far we haven't lost anything or anyone and are actually enjoying the travel time.
Thursday night we camped at a beautiful camp site in Georgia. I made camp fire stew, Steve got the tents up, girl's got the screen tent up and boys looked after the animals... smooth!
Heading out Friday morning both vans presented us with check engine lights. The green van had thrown a little protest Thursday and wouldn't shift gears.. so fun on the interstate! I pulled over and turned the engine off.. started up again and it behaved the rest of the trip. We pulled through Chick-Fil-A and filled the children up then headed to a Chevy dealership for an engine check. Miraculously they were able to see us straight away, diagnosed the problems and air filter issue in the grey van and a computer glitch in the green van. A quick fix later and having found and killed a scorpion!! and we were back on the road.
Friday night we chose to camp at the Days Inn, Tupelo MS. A good choice as the severe thunderstorm warnings produced massive rain and small hail. There were tornado's North of us but we had pressed far enough South to miss them!
Today we head into Arkansas to a campsite about five hours away. We may end up staying there two days as we will only be three hours from our final destination by then. Weather forecast is for sunny skies and clear travel. We will cross the Mississippi today, despite pleas from the children for us to caulk the wagons and float across, we WILL be finding an open bridge!
Next time I check in we should be at our destination! I keep checking for emails letting us know the baby's are out of IBESR but no such luck. We continue to wait patiently for our whole family to be together again!
No comments:
Post a Comment