The Trip

We are in the middle of our trek to our new home in the lone star state. We barely made it through New Mexico today, and have stopped in Amarillo, Texas. This morning we started in Farmington, New Mexico and were on the road about 8:30 and arrived at Amarillo at 8:20 pm CST. That comes to about 12 hours on the road, but from Farmington to Amarillo TX google put it at about 7 and half hours. Who knew that traveling with a baby adds like 5 hours. Calvin wasn't completely responsible for the 5 hour extension, our U-Haul and truck bed are packed completely full, believe me, I even unpacked the trailer and repacked it, there is no space to spare. As a result our truck doesn't go up hills very fast, and it doesn't easily make it to 70 mph.
Tomorrow we have another 6 and a half hours before McKinney, where we will spend the night with Jed, my brother. So tomorrow we plan to have another full day hopefully we can make it there around 5 pm cross our fingers. And then it is just one more day! I am not really excited for Monday, because after half a day of driving we will still need to unpack.

Calvin with Great Grandma Margaret

Our rig

The totally awesome mirror I rigged up so that Jennifer can look back and see Calvin

Our new home state, Texas. I am pretty sure there are more interesting horizons, it's a big state.

So Calvin is pretty interesting to travel with. We have learned that it is best to travel with him in the morning. During most the day he just pleasantly sleeps and we can just cruse right along, stopping every so often to feed him. But as soon as 4:00 rolls around, it is like he is incapable of sleeping longer and all he wants to do is be out of his car seat. So he spends his time wimpering, choking, and crying. But as soon as we pull him out of his seat, he brightens right up, laughs and just looks around. He is a funny little boy.