Today is the day.  The wait is over.  All the planning and preparation comes down to this.  We are officially On The Road!

The past week has been filled with school events pretty much everyday.  Wednesday we had kind of a going away party for the kids.  It rained pretty much the entire day so when we arrived at the park at 3:00 it was flooded.  We thought everyone would just leave but instead we ended up having a sandy/mud party.  The kids jumped in the water and went crazy.  All the kids were covered head to toe in wet orange sand.  It was a great time (except for the parents who had to take them home).

Today was the last day of school and the awards ceremony.  We were very proud of Zachary for making the A/B honor roll.  I’d like to thank all the families and teachers at Veritas Christian Academy for their support over the years.  We truly hope to keep in touch with everyone there over the next year.

We left the Asheville area today around 1:00 pm and headed east to my moms house.  The over 300 mile trip went well until the very end.  We were about 10 miles away and at the very last stoplight we had to go through.  As I approached the stoplight I applied the brakes to the motorhome as usual and for some reason the brakes on our Toad locked up.  I looked in the side mirror on the motorhome only to see a huge cloud of white smoke.  We pulled over on the side of the road and inspected the tires.  As I feared, we had worn a flat spot on the tires from where the tires locked up and the motorhome dragged the car across the asphalt.  This pretty much makes the car non-drivable requiring us to probably replace 2 of the tires on the Toad at a cost of over $250.  This was a very expensive mechanical failure and something that I hope does not happen often.

Tomorrow we are planning to get up and go to Myrtle Beach for a week with my mom.  We will be there until next Saturday.  Next week we will begin to plan our first stop as we head north.  We are thinking it will probably be Washington, DC and we will stay about a week.  We still need to find a reasonable campground so we can stay within our travel budget.

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By the way, I have over 1,000 pictures on my camera but am just to tired to go through them now.  I will get some time and post a lot of pictures as soon as things calm down a little.

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