My husband and I have recently taken a journey, a very long one! As I mentioned, we had answered God's calling and were moving to the other side of North America. My husband took a job in the beautiful state of Washington, which prior to our move we had spent one weekend checking things out.
We decided the best way to move out there would be to drive our belongs out with us. This was a two part adventure because we were on the east coast of Canada (NB) and the rest of our belongings were in Michigan. So we set out from New Brunswick to Maine with my parents driving along (with some of our belongings that did not fit in our civic, so we could mail them to Michigan). It was an emotional day saying goodbye to my parents as we left them somewhere near Portland, ME after spending the summer with them. We set off for Michigan; just the two of us, taking in all the sights and wonders of the east coast! We stopped in New York for New York style pizza, walked around Scranton, PA to see where one of our favorite shows is set. We squeezed in as much as we possibly could as we drove the long 24ish hour drive from New Brunswick to "Pure Michigan".
After what seemed like never ending roads we arrived and thankfully had some down time with my husbands family. It was wonderful to spend some time with family again before we moved very far away. Moving to the west coast was never the plan! We had moved from Saskatchewan (Canada) to be closer to our families, but things did not go as we planned or had hoped. Some how we had found ourselves on a job hunt that lead us to Washington state.
We left Michigan after we packed up all of our belongings that were in storage, into our big yellow moving truck and hit the road! Our first night proved to be a little more excitement than we had hoped! We were driving a very large truck and pulling our civic behind it; we had been told that we could not back up or make tight jack-knife turns. We stayed our first night somewhere on the other side of Chicago (we decided to leave later at night to avoid the traffic in Chicago) and our motel for the night was on the otherside of a divided road. We needed to turn but it was a wide jack-knife type turn, it was pretty wide so we thought we could make it. BIG mistake, we didn't make it!! After a few "what do we do?" "I don't know!" "We can't back up!" "What do we do?", freakout moments we did the only thing we could do: unhook the car in the middle of the road and drive it off the ramp and then back the truck up. Thankfully God was watching out for us (it was very late at night so there was not much traffic), He sent someone who offered to park his vehicle in front of ours with the flashers on so no one would hit our car. We unhooked our civic in record timing and I drove it into a near by parkinglot as we moved the truck, seriously we moved both vehicles faster than the speed of light. We then decided to keep the car unhooked until we got to the motel (a smart choice since the motel parkinglot was small). We collapsed into bed vowing never to try that again! Our first day of our second part of our road trip was a little more eventful than we had planned!
Our journey continued but there are more stories so I will save them for another day! We were on an adventure that was for sure! As with most things in our lives, our trip out west did not always go as we planned, but we knew God had a plan!
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