The Road Trip

The movers came and packed all of our things in Frisco. After they pulled away, I took one last walk through the house, locked the door, and said goodbye to our first home. It was a sad moment. I loved all of the memories we made there.

Mom helped me load her Tahoe with a week's worth of clothes to last until the movers made it to Roanoke and a basket full of cleaning supplies so that we could tackle the mess left for us in the new house. And then we headed east.

It was late when we left Dallas, so we stayed in Tyler the first night. The next morning, we got up and hit the road. We traveled up through Arkansas and passed by the Maybelline/Loreal factory.


After we crossed the border into Tennessee, we pulled over on the east side Memphis to grab a bite to eat and to put gas in the car. As we were getting gas, we noticed the tires were low. And as we were putting air in the tires, we noticed that there were cracks in the sidewalls. So we stopped at the Firestone station for them to put four new tires on the car. While we were bummed about the hour and a half delay, we were grateful that we hadn't had a blowout and were able to get the car fixed pretty quickly.

We set out again and made it to Nashville before we had to stop for the night. We stayed at Hotel Indigo - which I highly recommend to anyone who is planning to stay in Nashville - and ate the next morning at The Pancake Pantry - another don't miss.


After breakfast we traveled up through Knoxville and crossed the Virginia state line - the home stretch.


We rolled into Roanoke late Saturday afternoon to be welcomed by Jerry at the new house. It was a happy moment. I look forward to all of the great memories that will be made there.