on the road again...

From east to west and back again.

Some people go their entire lives never driving from coast to coast. Rick and I will have done in twice in one year! Pretty nutso!

Because we are technologically savvy and professional bloggers at this point, you all, or should I say ya'll, are privy to the inside, day-by-day of our trip back to the east coast.

We turned in our apartment keys at about 1030am, said our goodbyes, which were tougher than planned and were on the road by noon.

We donated some of our items to a few friends around portland.... one mattress, one bed set, two small end tables, two televisions, one shelving unit and tons of dishes, utensils, pots, pans and other random kitchen items as well as three lagunitas IPAs.

Needless to say, this did not cut our load down as much as we thought, or maybe we poorly planned the packing, but when it was all said and done, there was absolutely no room for our box spring. Instead of repacking the entire 6 x 10 trailer we opted to leave the box spring behind. Merry Christmas Portland!

Rick is very sick. He only made it about 30 miles outside Portland, before his cough got the best of him, so I took over, which as most of you know is quite shocking as Rick hates being a passenger, he must really be sick right?!

We have a very strict rule of no sleeping for the co-pilot so when Rick's medicine started to make him loopy we decided to call it a day. Unfortunately, that means we did not get as much of the trip under our belt as we had planned, but HEY! better to be safe that sorry.

210 miles later we are staying at a hotel in Pendleton, Oregon and it is only 4:26pm. But hopefully a good nights sleep (much needed after all the heavy lifting from the last two days) will get us amped and ready to make it all the way to Salt Lake City, Utah tomorrow.

So now that Rick and I have had some time to sit down with the map we have been able to schedule a tentative schedule.

The rest of the trip is planned as follows:

Sunday: Salt Lake City, Utah (558 miles)
Monday: Denver, Colorado (536)
Tuesday: Kansas City, Kansas (602)
Wednesday: Louisville, Kentucky (509)
Short detour to see the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

Thursday: HOME HOME HOME! (563)

This will add 3 states to my list leaving me only 11 more to visit and coming to a total of 2977 miles!

And NOW for your viewing pleasure...
Final photographs of the beautiful Mount Hood as we said goodbye to Portland.




We promise promise promise to be safe and responsible on our way back home. We cannot wait to see everyone back on the east coast.

I will write again when I have the opportunity.

Love,
your reformed-nomadic richmonders.