Plans!

We have officially set our moving date with the movers. It's the last week of July. Movers will come one day and pack all of our possessions into boxes, and then come the following day and load those boxes into a truck and drive away with them. We'll probably sleep on an air mattress that night and then head out the following morning. For our 3-day drive. With 3 cats.

Haha...they will be in the back seat, meowing their little hearts out from the safety of their carriers. The above picture does represent my road rage fairly accurately, however. I have even been known to hiss at bad drivers.

We are planning to stop in Memphis, TN, and Amarillo, TX. In preparation for our 3-day journey, I would like to acquire some entertainment to...entertain us in the car. Maybe audio books, or some stand-up comedy, podcasts, or awesome sing-along music. Please suggest such things in the comments!

We're thinking of staying in La Quinta hotels along the way since they are all pet-friendly, but this is another area where we are taking suggestions. Might as well stay somewhere nice since it's covered by the relocation pacakage. ;-)

That's all for now!

More From Our "Fam" Trip

In my last post, I mentioned our familiarization trip to Phoenix and some things I learned about Phoenix while we were there. Now I will share more details and photos from that trip.

I took quite a few of these photos from a moving bus, so please forgive the blur.

The hotel we stayed at had many palm trees and orange trees.

Many yards in Phoenix have orange trees, lemon trees, and grapefruit trees. With the group, we toured one rental house with fruit trees in the backyard, and all of the women on the tour were carrying as much fruit as they could back on the bus! People were shaking branches to get the precious oranges and grapefruits.

Justin contemplated taking an orange he found on a bench at the hotel, but decided against it.

Like I mentioned before, everywhere you go you can see mountains. This was on the drive north to Anthem.

There are also many cacti! I'm strangely fascinated by them. They grow very slowly, and if you damage one, it's a $5000 fine!

Here are pictures of what some typical neighborhoods look like:

Very different from NC!