We Made It!

After a ridiculously long drawn out move...we made it to Arizona! I think that sometimes my LOVE for planning is a curse because really, how often do things go off without a hitch?! Well we were pleasantly surprised when the truck was loaded and the house was cleaned by 5:00 pm on the day we planned! That left us a few hours to do the finishing touches, say goodbye to some friends, eat dinner, shower, and get to bed early. Of course we ended up dragging our feet and taking far too long and crashed on our friends couches (thank you Comptons) in the wee hours of the morning. We were going back and forth about what time to leave the next morning because they were planning on icy roads (dangerous in TX). We ended up sleeping in until 7:00 am. Not bad, but we went back to our house to put the bikes on the car and head out. Our landlord pulled up as we were getting in the car and he ended up staying for 2 HOURS! At 10:00 we were finally at the gas station filling up and about to head out on the open road when Phil decided to check the tire pressure. As luck would have it...we had a screw on the side wall of our tire. So Phil told me to run to Walmart and he'd wait for me. Waste of time. Walmart said that they couldn't do anything for a puncture in the side and sent me off to Discount Tire. Discount Tire was super cool and said since I had a 5th tire on the back they could put that on...until he went and checked and found out that it was a different size than the other 4 tires. WHAT?! Plan B...buy 1 new tire and put the back tire on with it (I can have 2 different sizes on the front and the back - who knew). The guy ran outside to check and came back in to inform me that we needed to go to Plan C because it was the original tire from 2001 and they legally couldn't put it on. Plan C...call daddy! Daddy forked over money for one tire and we fork over money for the other. At 1:30 pm I called Phil from the freeway (driving on my 2 new $440 tires) and asked him if he wanted me to grab him something to eat so we could get on the road and maybe make it halfway. He laughed and said that would be great, but we won't be getting very far today...the moving van won't start. Of course it won't start, if you know us, we never have good luck! Plan D. Budget came out, jumped the van, took Phil to their location to install a new battery, and by 3:30 we knew we had to go to Plan Z. We called our friends to see if we could stay the night (thank you Browns) and they graciously put us up in their guest room! We did get up the next morning and got on the road and finally made it to Arizona with no other problems! Whew! And to think, we'll probably be moving again in 6 months!