Off, Off, and Away We Go

I was able to get a few more pictures. I'm still playing around with the blog tools and posting, pictures specifically, and frankly I don't have time to play right now, so we'll post away and see what happens.

Yesterday was Ken and Dana's birthday party (we'll go ahead and withhold the year to protect the innocent). The party was a blast, and I wanted to thank all of those involved, and a special thanks to Mike and Jen for this and Sunday's brunch/Thanksgiving dinner.

The party was a 50's theme party. Ultimately my favorite pictures has to be ... well, motorcycles, woman, and spirits!

 

Everyone had a blast at the party.

And for those of you who really needed a picture of myself, I suppose we should go ahead and throw one out there to the net.

The fun couldn't last forever, and we had to get some sleep in as we were scheduled to start the big drive up north the next day. We did help clean up the clubhouse and the Royal Enfield needed a bit of coaxing to get started. I hope you made it all the way home Mike! It wasn't brought up at Sunday brunch so I assumed all went well. I was too distracted by the upcoming drive to think to bring it up.

Our place is empty at this point except for a handful of bags and a few boxes of items that we either needed to survive the last couple of days, or otherwise didn't get packed up by the movers.

We also had a borrowed air mattress from Jami and another neighbors mattress from her garage to keep us off the floor. A special thanks to Jami - I can't say enough about how helpful this was to have all your help.

Morning came fast and we had a busy day. The first task was to finish loading up our trailer, clean out the house, and do our last walk through.  Fortunately on schedule, we were able to get to our next, and very important task, of getting over to get the dog's health certificates. I thought this photo summed up their happy demeanor over their second vet visit in as many weeks.

Then it was off to Sunday Brunch and our farewell party.

I was explicit in that I needed the stereotypical picture of the truck pulling away and everyone waving goodbye, but somehow the group snuck away before I could get the shot.  Or perhaps they didn't, and I wasn't outside the truck to get the shot anyway.

Eventually I'll post pictures, and perhaps even tell stories, of the vehicle, and the trailer mentioned, and one would then be able to visualize the event described above. For now, just imagine your best goodbye scene and enjoy the farewell.

We started off our long drive north October 26, 2008, about 2:00 in the afternoon, and arrived in Buffalo, Wyoming later that night after a relatively easy drive time, and checked into the local dog friendly hotel to find some sleep for a big drive day tomorrow. 

And of course one must find time to post blog entries.

Or play games, as the case may be.

And due to some concern voiced about the potential for a tour of insanity, I must also make special mention that no one has been voted off the show - yet.

K. Chadwick