The Long and Winding Road . . . Back

Sorry for the lack of updates but life has been pretty crazy lately dawn to dusk. Last Monday, Larry the Wheaton Van Lines driver pulled up in front of our house with two helpers to load up our house. He arrived around 9:00 and estimated that it would take eight to ten hours to do. He questioned the estimate that we had 15,000 pounds of stuff.


Fourteen hours later, he was more agreeable to that estimate. He did not leave the house until about 11 PM. Which meant that we (Jeannette) didn't get to start really cleaning the house until Tuesday morning. After departing Klamath Falls, he was off to pick up three more households in Seattle for delivery across the country.

After having people tromp in and out of the house all day, it took Jeannette and Tami Mueller (and Jordan, Phillip and me to some small extent) until 3:00 to clean the place up. We had hoped to take off for Nampa, Idaho by 11 in the morning. Not a good start to a cross-country trip!

Through Eastern Oregon, we did see some nice scenery, most notably the stunning lake scene below . . .

When I drove to Nampa in June, I noticed this huge slide in Burns, Oregon, and thought we would have to stop on our way through town . . .
It's clearly from another era, when lawsuits didn't drive the design of playground equipment . . .

We didn't arrive at Eric and Kim Forseth's home until midnight. (I am discovering that Yahoo! maps drive time estimates are woefully understated when traveling with four kids in two vehicles.) Eric graciously gave us the entry codes, we snuck in through the garage and put ourselves to bed.

The next day, we drove to Rexburg, Idaho. On the way, Jeannette wanted to see Idaho Falls in Idaho Falls. Having lived the last seven years in Klamath Falls, which has no falls, I was skeptical . . . On our way to Rexburg, the ABS and brake warning lights came on in the Durango, so I spent three hours on Thursday morning sitting in a Dodge dealership while I waited to find out that it was just a worn out sensor that needs to be replaced. We took off for Yellowstone shortly before noon. If I have time, I'll post some of those pictures tomorrow.