The Journey

Starting at the end of July, 2013, Michael will begin his job as an Educational Technology Teacher Specialist with the Canyons School District in Sandy, Utah. Linda will consequently be starting her new independent recruiting and HR consulting firm in our new location. Join us on our adventure from Maryland to Utah as we drive across this great country! (Note: the drive was brutal and all I wanted to do when not behind the wheel was SLEEP. Therefore, this blog was constructed after the trip was completed. No animals or children were injured in the creating of this blog.)

Friday, June 28, 2013

Travel Day 1: Emmitsburg, MD - Newcomersville, OH

Late start, thunderstorms, and a need to get comfortable driving a fully loaded 20' U-Haul put us behind schedule before we could even start.

Instead of reaching Toledo, Ohio or Indianapolis, Indiana, we settled for a short 5 hour drive to Newcommersville, Ohio just outside the northern West Virginia panhandle.

Stopping at a truck stop, which may have been the setting for countless horror movies, we fired up the Expedia.com app on the iPad and found a pet friendly Hampton Inn 10 miles off the highway.

Exhausted from a week of packing we crashed for the night and decided to sleep in the next day so we could make it to Minnesota by Sunday instead of Saturday.  The best part of the day was learning to drive the "Big Rig", or at least I thought it was a big rig until I pulled into a truck stop and realized I was really just driving a big van.


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