Home Again, Home Again

August 26, 2007

Well, after a busy summer of packing, moving, unpacking, adjusting, CPEing, working, and adjusting some more, we decided what better way to spend our two weeks of vacation than in a car driving across the country?? What could be better?

Clearly many things we discovered after the first of many 12 hour days, but we were on a schedule, so while we whined and complained, grumbled and moaned, we drove on. For the third, and perhaps final, year in a row we made a vacation out of the fact that Adam has to be in Idaho at the end of every summer to meeting with his Presbytery about ordination. This year, rather than flying, we decided to be frugal and drive ourselves out to Idaho staying with family (and some lovely motel folk) along the way. Rather than taking our time meandering across the mid-section of our lovely country, however, we booked it in order to have a few days to spend at Yellowstone, a few days in Idaho, and a day in Missoula. While the 12 hour days were not in any way enjoyable, I’m glad we did it that way so we at least had some time out of the car and some time in places we enjoy being.

All in all it was a decent trip given the circumstances. The weather held up well for us, the forest fires kindly stayed out of our way most of the time, and we saw some very cool wildlife at Yellowstone (the orange moose above was actually tame, not wild, and in Wisconsin not Wyoming, so that’s not a good example, but who can resist an orange moose? Clearly not Adam). Probably not a trip to do again at the end of an already stressful summer, but hindsight is 20/20 and far more comfortable now that my butt is comfortably planted on the couch and not in the car.

Posted in life, marriage by Sarah