"It's Time to TRAVEL"

Salt Lake

We just traveled 80 straight west in fact our navigational system just kept saying, "stay on the current route". We ran out of gas in the darkest night out in the middle of Nebraska. I was reading the Help and LaVar and I were really into the story and we just didn't notice until the car gave a little chug. After a call to USAA we had a few moments of regret and we settled down with a flashlight and continued reading. The time passed quickly, the tow truck came with gas, and we were off again to spend the night in Grand Island. Which was less than an hour away, we were aggravatingly close.

 We met Charlotte and the kids at Paradise Bakery in Salt Lake City. Tyler was in Vermont painting so we didn't get to see him. Jaim and Jody met us there with the plan that we would go to a park in Sugar House. Ordering sandwiches took a long time and by the time we got to the park it was dark and the place had many police cars out front so we just went to Charlotte's house.
This is a picture of a guy that stands in the road in Windover Nevada.

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 Continue on the current route.

 Elinor got to meet her sister and we got to visit with LaVar's parents and Brett and Rowena and their collection of dogs and chickens.




We went into our home that we have rented out for the last 5 years and things were amazingly nice. People have really been kind to the place. The shop out back has not been used much and the spiders really took over. We swept them down gave it a good insect bombing and got it ready to put our stuff in it. This was the first time we didn't take a whole moving truck and had to do the race thing with the movers. The movers had a breakdown and were a couple of days delayed, so we had time to do what we wanted with the shop. We took a set of doors Savannah and I picked up from someone's curb trash, that we had hanging on the outside of the shop as decoration and hung them inside to partition off the back area and lock it. 

 Found treasures. Tim painted this years ago and it hung in Micah's room. We were able to get it into the car, going to California so now it will hang in his boys room.

 We went to the folks favorite Chinese restaurant and this was LaVar's fortune! Indeed it is time to travel!!

 Tumbleweeds or Russian thistles are sort of pretty when in bloom, but because I am so allergic to them, I have a hard time seeing or appreciating their beauty.

 Shop area ready!

 AAAAAAHHHHH! one of our few casualties!! I regret sending my precious hobby maker with the movers. WHAT WAS I THINKING!! The guy that was bringing it in said with a guilty voice, "if I'd had known it was a sewing machine I would have treated it differently !!" What!!??? aaaaaaaw drat, drat, drat!!!

Stuff, stuffed everywhere! But it all fit with room to spare

 We covered it all to protect from sun and spiders, but mice.... not so much. Hope they just don't find anything to make a good nest with.

 On to California! We saw our first snow of the season over the passes, but the road was open and we had no trouble. On to see Tim, Laura, Sam, Hadley and Miles in San Marcos.

Lunch in Bishop. We longed to eat here again and we were not disappointed. It is such a nice place! Loved it.