WOW! A lot has changed since last post!

Didn't realize how long its been since I posted! A lot has happened since then....like we moved across the country!

Wow, last post had us talking about fixing up the 5th wheel to move. Well I did make the curtains......then we sold it! We decided it would cost a fortune to haul due to its size PLUS all the work it would need like new tires, new AC, etc. We paid $4000 for it in Dec 2007. We sold it for $7500 in June! Then we bought a 1994 30ft Jayco Travel Trailer tow behind for $6000! It is really nice and plenty big enough for us. It would be cheaper to haul because its smaller and we also didnt have to buy and install a 5th wheel hitch!

Hubby had been doing contract work and his contract was going to end in July. He tried to find work locally, but at his age, IT is a hard job to get because they want fresh out of college kids that they can pay peanuts to and not seasoned hands on guys who know what they are doing but don't have a degree. So as it got closer to July we sent his resume on the web. He got offers from Illinois, Iowa, and Massachusettes! NO WAY we were going to live there! Then he got an offer from Gulf Shores, AL......hmmm if we HAVE to relocate, the South would be the best, kind of like going back home. Gulf Shores sounded like a nice place! So he kept looking locally or at least states closer to ID so we could be closer to the kids. NO LUCK.

So the end of July, we pulled up jacks on the RV and headed South so he could be ready to work in AL in mid August. The plan was to go "home" to Louisiana for a week or so, visit parents, etc before starting new lives in AL. We stopped in UT for a few days to visit friends. We took our time, after all this would be the only vacation we get for a while. After UT, we stopped the first night in Cheyenne WY. The 2nd night we stopped in Hays, KS. DO NOT EVER STOP IN HAYS KS FOR ANYTHING! NOT EVEN GAS! SCARY SCARY SCARY place. The best RV park in town- there are 2- happened to be a grassy, area behind a convenient store, adjacent to a rundown motel looking thing. We were too tired to travel the 87 miles to the next town so we took our lives in our own hands. No one slept very hard, wondering if the hookers, drug addicts, and all around hoodlums would like the stuff locked in the back of our truck...or maybe just take the whole darn truck.

We were out of there at daybreak the next day! We were headed to OK City, then TX, then LA but it was Thursday and hubby got an email to call his boss. The job was being moved to FL and they needed him to be there MONDAY at 10am! HOLY MOLY talk about regroup.

Our family would freak if we went straight to FL without seeing them after they waited so long to see us. Hubby had not seen his mom in years! So we decided if we went straight to LA we could be there late that night, spend Friday and Saturday with them and head for FL on Sunday. SO taht is exactly what we did.

God has blessed us so much and we just have to know that if he leads us to it, he will see us through it!

We made the entire trip with our 1997 Ford F250 towing a 1994 30' travel trailer. We had no truck or trailer problems, no accidents, nothing thanks to the good Lord watching over us.
We had one situation that could have been bad but someone somehow saw to it that we noticed before it became a problem.

In the whole trip, I could go for a few hours without having to make hubby stop for a bathroom trip. At my age, I was pretty proud of that! LOL! Anyway, we left the RV park in Cheyenne, tanked up both tanks on the truck and headed out. We weren't on the road 10 minutes and I needed to potty. I had just gone, didn't drink anything and figured it was nerves. After about 20 minutes I told hubby, you are gonna hate me but you will have to find a place to pull over so I can potty! I can go in the RV just find a place to stop. He looked at me like I was nuts and said ok. We can't just stop on the interstate so he found the first exit and pulled off. There was a mall, it was closed but it didnt matter with the RV attached. We just parked in the middle of the parking lot and I headed for the RV.

I asked them WHAT IS THAT SMELL as soon as I opened the door! We all got out and as I got to the back of the truck I told Bob something was leaking at the back of the truck and ran in to the bathroom. When I got back out, the guys were under the truck trying to figure out where the GAS was leaking out of the truck! It was just pouring out like the whole bottom of the tank was gone! We traced it to the fuel cap on the back tank. Apparently all the construction we had driven thru shook the tank, caused pressure to back up, and the cap couldn't vent without shooting gas out. He tried to open the gas cap and it almost blew off. He relieved a little pressure, and we called the fire dept. We couldnt leave the gas on the road and knew if we opened the gas cap a lot more gas would come out. SO fire dept comes over, puts absorbant stuff on the spill and more around the truck so we could open the tank. All in all we lost about 3 gallons of gas but it looked like a lake! Apparently hubby put a little too much gas in the back tank so when pressure built it caused the problem. I promise you he never put more than 3/4 tank at a time again for the whole trip! Considering we traveled over 2400 miles for this relocation we thank God that was the only problem we had!

We got here Sunday afternoon, set up in a nice rv park and hubby went to work on time the next day. We knew it would be a full time position which is better than a contract! We knew it would be programming in .NET which is his favorite type of coding. We had no idea the pay would be so awesome, the benefits would be great, etc. We thank God for that every day!

I was going to job hunt when we got here, but hubby makes enough that he wants me to stay home and I am not going to argue with that! So you think I am spoiled? You bet I am!