My parents and I left our house in Peoria, AZ about 3:30am on Thursday, June 19th. We had spent the prior two days packing up my suv, Trav's truck and our rented 12x6 U-Haul Trailer (I guess I should clarify, my dad did most of the packing of the vehicles, my mom and I were more assistants).
Our goal was to make it to Manhattan by early Friday, due to not planning on stopping at a hotel/motel on the road. We figured that since we had 2 vehicles and three drivers we could do it. The main hazard of our perfect road trip was the U-Haul Trailer... the hitch was put on our vehicle wrong, so once we attached the filled up trailer the hitch was only about 1 inch off the ground (no exaggerations). Every bumb in the road, uneven pavement... you name it we felt it and scratched it - sometimes even created sparks! This little situation created a slow ride for all of us, at some points I could only get the vehicle up to 45 miles per hour... Semi Trucks were passing us. When we would fill up at gas stations people would ask us if we were stuck!
The states we visited along the way were: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma & of course Kansas. New Mexico was hot, boring and filled with construction zones (slow driving there). Texas was exciting... we hit some pretty rough rain storm in Texas and guess what it turned out to be, that's right a Tornado - we missed it by about a half and hour (thank you God).
The only times we stopped were for gas fill ups, (believe me there were plenty of those with my gas-guzzling trailer) bathroom breaks and snacks (of course). During that storm in Texas we decided to stop for our first meal at about 10pm - Dairy Queen. While we were there the building lost electricity - how exciting. We decided at about 2:00am to stop in a little town on the outskirts of Kansas for a short nap - so we slept in a hospital parking lot for about 3 hours.
We finally made it safe and sound to our apartment at about 9am on Friday! Now that is driving. Instead of sleeping, the 3 of us spent the whole rest of the day unloading the vehicles and setting up the rooms. A special treat; Travis asked around and got 4+ men from our new bible study to come at 5pm and help us with the heaviest of loads - what a blessing for my dad.
My parents stayed and helped Trav and I unpack the boxes, hang picture frames and essemble furniture until Sunday, when we had to take them to the Kansas City, Missouri airport to say goodbye. It was hard to do, but man were we greatful for all of their help.
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