The Journey - part 1

Last Monday, an 18-wheeler pulled up in front of our house. A group of 6 or 7 movers came in and packed up all of our things.

Another guy came to build crates for our TV and a glass tabletop.
Movers have a weird method for packing everything.  One newbie on the moving crew packed a lamp in 3 separate boxes. 1 lamp, 3 boxes. I also saw him put a guitar, a drum, and ramen noodles in one box.

Castle in the kitchen...okay, that makes sense...

Boxes everywhere.

The movers put in about 11 hours that day to get all of our things packed in boxes and loaded on the truck.
We stayed the night at my parents' house, cleaned up our house a little the next day, and then headed out. Also, a guy came to put Justin's car on a trailer bound for Phx.

The first day, we drove to Nashville, TN. A lot of the photos I'm posting are tagged with their specific locations in Picasa. And the coolest thing is, you can see a map showing all the photos I took with my phone on the trip in the locations where I took them! https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/albumMap?uname=JamieCRichardson&aid=5595127228671512161#map

The mountains of NC and TN were very pretty.

The cats did not appreciate the scenery as much. Beeb was meowing woefully. Spooky was lounging contentedly the whole time. Callie spent some time lounging and some time meowing.

A Smart car passed us on the highway. Justin was surprised "Is that a Smart car on the highway?"

I responded "Yes, and she's passing you." The speed limit was 75 for much of our drive!

After 6 hours of driving, we were very happy to see Nashville, where we planned to stay the night.

We left the cats in the hotel room and ate dinner at McNamara's Irish Pub.

The next day, we left Nashville and drove for over 10 hours to stay the night in Yukon, OK.
The Tennessee River was really pretty.

We saw an interesting silver pyramid in Memphis.

We crossed the Mississippi River! Justin had never seen it before.

These pictures are blurry because they were taken by a phone through the filthy window of a moving car, FYI.
I didn't take many in Arkansas....frankly it's not the most exciting state to drive through.

Oklahoma was a little better.
I enjoyed seeing many huge wind turbines.

In Texas you could see for miles.

There were also cattle, which is what you expect to see when you're in Texas.

I have a lot of great photos to sort through from the rest of the drive, so I'll be posting more later :-)