Road trip!!!

Exactly one month from right now, we'll be hanging out at Brad and Christina's (minus Brad) house over in Seward. That will be night one (as long as you don't count the night on the ferry) of our big cross-country move (take 2). We have a fabulous trip planned, starting with an overnight on the ferry from here to Homer the day after my change of command, and ending 19 days later at our new home in Mobile. Yep, that's right. 19 days. In the truck. With the baby. And the dog. Did I mention 19 days? Oh, and the baby is still rear-facing in her carseat, so she gets to look at the back of the truck for 19 days.

So pretty much now I'm just hoping I don't get too car sick from the backseat of the truck while we're driving on the awesome-ness that is the ALCAN.

Doesn't this look like fun?

In case you're counting, that's something along the lines of 4800 miles. And 19 days.

We do have a few exciting stops planned, though. We're going to take a little time in Alaska on the way out, doing the stuff we said we'd do before we leave. Which, I guess we technically are, we just meant sooner than actually on the way out! So we'll stop in Seward to see Christina (and the SeaLife Center), and then we'll head north to Denali, a little further north to Fairbanks, and then we'll start making our way south again after first going through North Pole! Many Santa pictures will follow.

Reservations are made - this time without a stop in the armpit of the world - and we're the most excited about the extra time we'll be spending at the Grand Canyon! That'll be our one big stop this time around, rather than the 3-4 extra stops we made on the way out. We figured with the baby, the better part of valor was to truck along instead of taking too much time!

In the next 4 weeks (ACK!!! How did it get to be so soon!?!), we have to have a yard sale, decide what's coming with us in the trailer, deal with the movers, close on the house, move down the road to our temporary house (courtesy of our friend Rob), wrap things up at our jobs, host some family, have a change of command, throw the baby a birthday party, and about a bazillion other things. But, it'll all get done, I'm sure. If it doesn't, well, we'll still be on the road on time anyway!

Part of me can't believe that our time here in Kodiak is coming to an end so soon. The other part of me is jumping out of my skin to get out of here and move forward! We've got an enormous amount of changes coming and, even though change scares the poo outta me, I'm excited!

In 2 weeks, when the movers show up, I'll probably forget about the excitement under the huge weight of the stress, but, for now, I'll talk myself into the excitement!

So, anyone know of good places to stop along our route? If you squint really hard, you should be able to figure out where we're going!