We have arrived!!! And are SO in love with our new home!
To back track a little….
On Tuesday, we left Branson at around 8:30 and headed out to Nashville to visit our friends JT & Pooja. We arrived just before 5 and I headed straight into classes for 5.5 hours (doing your masters online while traveling across country is not the easiest thing I’ve ever done). JT made us an incredible home cooked meal, which we have been missing so much, and we hit the sack. Q and I woke up at 4:30AM Wednesday morning with a mission: get to Georgia!
We truly had incredible timing as my car had JUST arrived from Alaska the day before. So we headed from Nashville to Atlanta, grabbed my car, and caravanned down to Fort Benning. Q had to do some work, so I grabbed a bite to eat and then we went in and signed the lease for our new place!
Our timing and the Army’s timing has been impeccable. Normally when you move, you head down to your new post, wait 2-3 weeks for a house and then your furniture/car arrive. We shipped half of our things from Los Angeles and half from Fairbanks. The Alaska items are still in transit, but our Los Angeles items arrived before we did. We managed to score a brand new house in the area we wanted the day we moved and my car was ready for pick up on the way. We are SO lucky.
And our new house is FABULOUS! We have a yard, a big kitchen, a garage and two stories (this coming from the couple who moved out of a small 2-bedroom Alaskan apartment). This morning Q had to say “babe, where are you?” and we both laughed because in our old apartment you ALWAYS knew where the other person was.
So the new adventure begins! Today cable, internet, and our Los Angeles furniture comes and we will begin to get settled into our new home!
Miles traveled : 4840 (800 on these legs)
Hours driven/on ferry: 996 (14 on this leg)
Catch up on the K&Q adventure here:
Road Tripping
Stop#1 Anchorage
Stop#2 The Ferry
Stop#3 Idaho
Stop#4 Nebraska/ Missouri
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Miles traveled so far: 4040 (1430 on these legs)
Hours driven/on ferry: 92.7 (19 on this leg)
Q and I hit the road running after Idaho knowing that we had a full day ahead of us. We drove through Idaho, the corner of Utah, Wyoming and most of Nebraska before stopping for the night in Lincoln.
On Monday, we woke up and headed straight to Branson, Missouri to visit Q’s aunt and uncle. We made a quick stop for some food that was not from Subway… and picked Chipotle!
We arrived in Branson in the afternoon and Q’s aunt and uncle invited the extended family to come over for a BBQ to see Q and meet me. As an only child, I never knew I could have dozens of cousins, aunts and uncles, but I do now! It was SO beyond special to me to meet everyone and feel so included in my new family. Q and I cannot wait to go back!
And tomorrow we finally arrive in Georgia!!!
Catch up on the K&Q adventure here:
Road Tripping
Stop#1 Anchorage
Stop#2 The Ferry
Stop#3 Idaho
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Miles traveled so far: 2610 (750 on this leg)
Hours driven/on ferry: 73.7 (11 on this leg)
We arrived in Bellingham at 8AM and all 30 cars or so drove off the ferry and onto the highway. It was shockingly speedy and everyone was extremely organized in getting in their cars early as to not hold back other drivers since all of our cars were stacked.
Q and I hit the ground running after a quick breakfast stop at Statbucks. The northwest is just stunning! The green trees, lakes, rivers and mountains were gorgeous and a change from the snow we are used to.
We breezed through Washington and quickly hit Oregon for a drive through the hills before heading into Idaho.
We pushed through as much as Idaho as possible before we needed dinner and through Yelp found “the best gyro shack in Boise, Idaho” and had to stop. And it was delicious and just what we needed. Q and I are so used to cooking for ourselves the past few weeks that being on the road has been hard for us with all the eating out. We try and stay as non-fried/fast foody as possible on the road and were happy to have found a good healthy-ish spot. We called it a night at 10 and woke up rearing to go at 6AM Sunday morning! More on that tomorrow…
Also our dear friends The Bulls created this fun road trip scavenger hunt for us to complete as we move across country. They are doing the same trip next month and we are competing against them on who gets the most sightings! Winner buys the other dinner in their new town. Wish us luck!
Catch up on the K&Q adventure here:
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Stop#1 Anchorage
Stop#2 The Ferry
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The K&Q Road Trip continues….
Miles traveled so far: 1860 (1500 on ferry)
Hours driven/on ferry: 62.7 (57 on ferry)
So we survived. It was five long days on a ferry with no internet. Instead there were lots of books, movies and TV shows (we finished a season of Mad Men and Parenthood). And honestly it wasn’t SO bad disconnecting from the outside world for a bit and just hanging out. There was a lot of sleeping, reading, and just being with each other with no distractions.
We drove down from Anchorage to Whittier Monday afternoon and boarded our ferry at 9PM Monday evening. We slept hard and then spent the whole day on the boat Tuesday.
On Wednesday, we had a 3-hour break in Juneau and Q and I just LOVED it. It reminded us of a small New England beach town. It had such a personality and we enjoyed having a beer and eating fried shrimp on the dock.
On Thursday we had a few hours in Ketchikan and we honestly didn’t really need them… Ketchikan is no Juneau, but Q and I did enjoy hopping off the boat and going for a long walk to shake our legs out.
Friday was our last day on the boat and I luckily had some homework to do while we packed up our little cabin and got ready to dock on Saturday morning.
Early Saturday morning we docked in Bellingham and hit the road… more on that tomorrow!
Catch up on the K&Q adventure here:
Road Tripping
Stop#1 Anchorage
And that cute striped tee from this post I am wearing is on serious sale at Gap now !
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