Last leg of the trip

Hi - here are the promised pictures. We are at a coffee shop on Monday as they have free wireless. We've ordered it for home but don't have access yet.  The two middle kids are in school. Seth needs some evals to come through to figure out what support he needs and Caleb needs his course selections to go through to the teachers as he is in middle school. He gets a laptop issued to him to borrow like a textbook for all his school years before college. You pay a damage deposit and rent fee. Different. We are settled in and unpacked - it works that way when you only have suitcases to unpack. We loved the church family yesterday and have felt welcomed by those who have stopped by from church and by our neighbors. The pictures are of South Dakota through the end of our trip. I'm only posting a few. Wyoming we drove through at night. Montana is the bigger mountains. Idaho was a quick blink. Washington had mountains down to the grasslands again. Then we were in Canada and in our new home.

Crossing the Finish Line

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Submitted by Jeff

All that to say . . . we are here.

We will be putting pictures up of everything but I wanted to give some quick accounts of our final leg.

We stared out a little after 7am. I had to revamp the Trip-tick so that we crossed the border at the right place. In the rush of heading out the door my cell phone decided to stay an extra night or so. We got to see the Grand Coulee Dam (pix enroute). Then I got to meet a nice Washington State Police officer. Apperently, unlike New York State (and many others) there isn't a 10mph cushion in Washington. If it says 60mph . . . that you had better drive 60mph max! Luckily I wasn't "rewarded" with any penalty other than a minor scolding.

We had a very uneventful bording crossing as well. Apparently when we went to the border in Buffalo last Friday we were cleared for this and every other crossing . . . God is good.

We pulled into town about quarter to 2. We went to the schools and through some other miraculous meetings with teachers and admin-type people, the kids are all ready for school on Monday . . . did I say God is good.

Amy and I are getting settle in what feels like a dream. Thanks for sharing the journey. We well post more news as we continue to find our way.

Whew!

Beautiful Mountains

submitted by Amy

I only bought one book at Worthington, MN - good thing (Thanks for the advice P.). I finished it before we left and got to enjoy the views. I took tons of pictures. It smelled like Christmas with all the pine trees . We'll post some pics later. Another fun thing - Jeff played veggie tales for the kids and Seth sang at the top of his lungs. Great.

Amy

Another Day as Planned

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Submitted by Jeff

It is a great feeling to have another leg of our trip behind us. The rest of Montana was very beautiful. The crossing over to Idaho was like a dream. And we were thankful for the new transmission . . . the hills are amazing.

Thanks for joining us for the journey! Tomorrow . . . BC!

J

On The Road Again

Submitted by Jeff

Ok now.

About noon (central time) Jessi, Chloe and I walked about 1.4 miles to the repair shop from the hotel. I drove back to the hotel and loaded up. I took time to take the radio/tape player apart to extract about 54 cents that Seth had decided place in there. We went through the drive thru at the local BK and we were on the road by 1:45pm. Less than 11 hours later we made it to Billings, MT. With the time change we got there a little after 11:30pm. I am tired. But happy to be here.

Has anyone ever been to Wall Drugs?? What's the deal??

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Scenery Pics

A barn I was trying to take a picture of - then we broke down right there and I had plenty of time to take the picture. MN.

Wisconsin - still not huge changes from NY but lovely.