I told Curtis that I would blog all about our adventure in getting moved...so, here it goes.
To move to Arizona, my dad offered to drive the horse trailer down w/ our stuff in it, and we had Curtis's truck. We were also supposed to have a work van (for Curtis's business) to drive down (but, that's a whole different story that you don't even want me to get started on).
We got a late start on the morning of Memorial Day. Decided to head down to Phoenix through Nevada. We had planned to stop in Henderson and stay the night to break up the trip a little and see my older brother that lives there. And things were going pretty close to how it was planned...until we noticed smoke coming from the driver's side of the horse trailer about an hour past Wells, NV (right outside of the miniscule town of Currie)!! My dad limped the trailer up the road to a pull out where there was more room to check out what was going on. Come to find out the tire was shot from the axle and bearing breaking! Yikes!!! We barely had any cell or data service, but were able to look up Les Schwab Tires. A guy aswered the phone and noted that he was on call, but he wasn't coming to tow us on a holiday! (So much for the Les Schwab commercials where they save people on the holidays and help them make their events and stuff!!!) He gave us the name of a towing company, but wouldn't even look up the number for us on that either!! We looked it up on the internet and were able to call. The second company was nice, but noted they couldn't tow the trailer on a truck, they would just have to pull it behind their truck and limp it back to Wells. So, we decided we could do that ourselves and not be out the money from the tow. So, we found a 2X4, jammed it in the spot that was rubbing on the axle, and slowly headed back to Wells. (Yep, an hour outside of Wells, and we had to turn around and go BACK!) We even had vultures swarming above us out in the middle of the desolate desert...looking at us like we were their next meal!!! (Ok, actually we saw them on the road when we were headed back to Wells, but it was the first time Curtis had seen vultures and he wanted me to write about it.) :)
We got to Wells dreading the possibility of having to order parts for the trailer and in the meantime, renting a Uhaul, unloading the horse trailer, and loading it into the Uhaul and hitting the road again. But, things just seemed to work out. Thanks to my stepsister and a connection that she had, we found a shop to repair the trailer that night. And a store in town had the parts (and we caught them 20 minutes before they closed!). The trailer was fixed in time for us to go enjoy dinner! We ended up staying in Wells that night (it was an exhausting day). Then we hit the road the next morning and headed to Henderson to rest and play a little. Then the next day...off to our final destination...Maricopa, AZ!!!
We are (will) be living w/ our friends Emily and Jason down there for a while. They're awesome! :) We got the room all set up for Curtis so he'd be comfy. And then the next day I got back on the road w/ my dad and stepmom and headed back to Boise. (No complications on the way home...well, except we accidentally took the scenic route home -ha-ha!) I got to experience driving w/ a horse trailer. Not too bad...a little freaky at night over the Hoover Dam bridge w/ lots of traffic and semis and curves in the road...but, I managed.
So, Curtis is enjoying the heat...softball...staying busy getting everything going for his business. I'm back in Boise working a few more weeks for my dental office and getting the house cleaned up and ready for renters. Then I have a small "Kiesig" family reunion. And, after that I'll be hitting the road again to AZ to join my hubby(at least this time, I'll know my way)! :)
