Its amazing how much trash we had.. I think we took 2000 pounds to the dump that last week!
We parked the trailer next to the house so that we could load it up with our household stuff. When we went to weigh it we were over in weight by quite a lot. Grant and I spent the day before we left resorting stuff and putting things into storage. It was a bit stressful but we were able to get it done!
resorting at the last minutes
We were so blessed to have lovely weather the last few days of packing and finishing up at the house. The weather was so beautiful that these early spring flowers sprung up in the yard
And we are off! We met the Kings at PV near our place at 8:30 am- gassed up, filled tires and hit the road! After about a half hour Jeremy's check engine light came on.. he quickly found a mechanic to take a look at his vehicle. It ended up being no big deal and we were quickly on the road again, Praise the Lord! Once we hit the coast we realized there was a huge storm coming in. We experienced 70 mph gusts and torrential downpours. It was pretty stressful driving at times but we reached a Walmart in Crescent City and gratefully slept like babies.
The next day Grady noticed some extreme vibration in our front brakes while braking down steep grades. We decided to stop to have the front brakes checked out.. and ended up having them re machined..we ended up staying in that town ALL day while waiting for the rotors to be worked on. We all got a bit stircrazy in the trailers with the children (in the city!!) Our family & Becca King had a nice stroll in the rain and found a cheerful Starbucks along the way! We all were disappointed to lose a whole day of travel but later found out that had we traveled that day we would have caught up with a terrible windstorm, mudslides and snarled traffic. We are so grateful that the Lord answered our prayers and kept us from harm. It reminded us to keep that in mind the next time a trial comes our way- the Lord is in control of all things and we can trust him!
We had planned out our route the next day only to find out that the way we had planned to go had roads washed out, mudslides, sinkholes and 10 miles of backed up traffic. Amazingly enough, the Kings friend was traveling the very road we had planned to take and was able to warn us of the delays and dangers. Again, we thanked the Lord for protecting us! We took the desert route instead and were able to avoid the entire affected area.
Just outside of Napa,CA
Jeremy & Grady purchased some walkie talkies to enable easy communication
It was such a blessing to get past the bad weather and step out at the gas station to 65 degrees and sun! Pretty much everyone immediately switched over to flip flops :)
Somewhere in CA or AZ
the end of day 4
What a view!
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