Lets get this show on the road!

After a rather dubious beginning (two blowouts within 5 miles, waiting for help, tire stores and rig damage) we're once again on the road and finally out of Florida :-)

More later!

Washington, DC here we come!

Last night my parents (the brotherhood's grandparents) had a wonder farewell dinner for us. Grandpa Gene slow-cooked his famous ribs for over 3.5 hrs until they were literally falling off the bones. My mom made fresh cole slaw and red potato salad too. It was really wonderful! To top it all off, my mom brought out a BEAUTIFUL blackberry cobbler, made with a special crust of coconut and pecans, topped with pure vanilla ice cream. YUMMO! Now that's a send-off.

Family Photos

Right before we left on our Grand Adventure across the United States we had some family pictures done on our farm in Florida.


We want to share some of these pictures because they just turned out to be so beautiful and fun, truly capturing the spirit of our home and life. Our photographer, Rachel Whited, is so young, energetic and TALENTED, well, I would suggest you even FLY her to you! She is that good!

You can learn more about Rachel on her myspace website: http://www.myspace.com/photographsbyrachelwhited

We interrupt this vacation... Aunt Pam's surgery

My beautiful little sister had a health crisis over the last few days. She was having a lot of pain on her right side and when she got it checked out they saw a mass on her ovary that was suspicious.


Long story short and many more tests later, she had laparoscopic surgery this morning. The mass on her ovary was malignant so she had a complete hysterectomy. The surgeon said it was stage one and NOT the kind of cancer that is lethal...this one is malignant but behaves benign, in that it is "encapsulated" and does not spread. She is expected to make a full recovery and no further treatment will be necessary as long as the pathology reports come back with clear lymph glands.

We sure do love you, sis, and pray for a quick recovery!!!!

Our Beloved Cabin

Warm temps, long mountain views, boys wrestling in the yard.... Does it get any better than this???

To North Carolina....blowout!

Dave accepted a contract position in San Antonio and will begin work on March 10th. We left the rig in a GREAT RV park there and we will stay with him while he works, returning to Florida every couple of months for a month.

So with all these logistics taken care of, we left "San Antone" to head to our cabin in North Carolina to check on things since it may be awhile before we can get back. Last night we had a blowout on the interstate. Dave "control crashed" the truck into the inside median. The blowout was on the left front tire. How scary! What is even more mysterious is we had a blowout on the same tire one year ago. We need to figure out why we are repeatedly blowing tires on the same wheel. If anyone has any ideas please leave a comment. We will put pics up in the next day or so.

We waited for almost 3 hours, in the dark, in the interstate, in freezing temps, for the tow. The tow towed us to the next exit and put on our spare. We couldn't change the tire ourselves because we were stuck in mud from our "landing" :-).

So we are having tires replaced and catching up on schoolwork and the blog in a hotel and feeling pretty blessed!

San Antonio, redux...

Two days of 400+ miles each, whew! This is what we did Friday (2/22) and Saturday. But it was beautiful! We told jokes, laughed, and stopped at "look-it" sights along the way. And the boys also managed a little rip-sticking in the meantime too :-)

We're scouting out possible places to stay long-term as Dave might have a client here in San Antonio.