Almost Ready

I have always had a dream of a cross country road trip. A trip where you start with a plan and some destination points and then you add lots of adventure and spontaneity—a little by the seat of your pants and lots of flexibility. Last year Ernie suggested that we make that dream come true for me. Hours on the computer with navigating programs and with a stack of travel books we are ready to launch. We leave our home in Eagle, Idaho on Monday, July 16th and travel a not so straight line to explore and see our country. We’ll be in New York through the first of August before we visit Washington DC and start our journey home. Five weeks on the road with Jacob and Isaac may not sound all fun, but I have to say, I am so excited I can hardly wait—like the excited I felt when we got Jacob and Isaac up at 5:00 in the morning one Friday and told them we had to drive from San Diego to Los Angeles to sign papers on our house before we moved to Eagle and instead we took them to Disneyland for 2 days with cousins and Lacey and Ryan came too. The look of surprise and wonder was my favorite part of the whole weekend. I am excited to see Yellowstone Park, Mt Rushmore, Nauvoo, Niagara Falls, Amish country, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Statue of Liberty. I am just as excited to see Jacob and Isaac experience this country that we have been so blessed to live in. We’ve added a few stops along the way home to visit with Lacey and Ryan and then to be able to share in the blessing of our newest little Izabelle in Colorado before our last leg home. Oh, the stories we’ll be able to tell –I suspect to never be quite the same—dreams really do come true.