That day finally arrived. The day that Michael and I left Californeeway was this past Saturday morning. We had breakfast with some of our folks at IHOP and we were on our way. The first day we drove 11 hours to Gallup, New Mexico. To get there we drove through Arizona, which Michael and I have affectionately dubbed the devils asshole because it was blazing hot every time we got out of our truck. Every time we stopped for gas, I worried about our animals overheating. Faceman actually panted a couple of times after a gas stop. It totally freaked me out since cats panting means respiratory distress. Thankfully they were only short moments of pant and not continuous ones.
The next day we drove 10 hours to Dodge City, Kansas. On the way there we nearly got into an accident when a truck lost control (I think the driver fell asleep) on the other side and started barreling towards us through the middle dirt intersection. Fortunately we were going fast enough where he just barely missed us. It was pretty scary though! I really thought we were going to die there.
Finally the third day (today), we drove 4 hours to get to our final destination to Manhattan, Kansas. We arrived here around 4:30 pm central time. Michael and I unpacked 2/3rds of our truck in 105 degree weather. It was excruciating! We decided to unload the rest of the truck tomorrow because we were tired and sweaty as hell.
There's a lot of other little things we need to do before we are completely settled in... one is buying shelves for one of the cabinets in the kitchen... another is possibly getting the bottom of the sink shelf replaced (we think there's mold at the bottom), get our cable, gas, electric stuff set up... buy a house phone... buy another lamp... BAH!
Lots of work to be done tomorrow...
