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| Wanapum State Park - crossing the Columbia River in Washington State |
Brent's first day on the road was a late start after finishing cleaning the house, packing the Highlander with a deer and an elk head, returning unused boxes to U-Haul, and getting the "dog lounge" ready in the backseat of the Tundra. Still, he drove 7 1/2 hours that day - great start!
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| Deer Lodge, Montana |
The first two days were clear, but windy and cold. Once he passed the mountains in Montana, he felt it was just big country - you could see mountains a long way off, dips in the landscape, blue skies and clouds.
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| Whitehall, Montana |
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| Hardin, Montana |
The dogs did okay on the trek. They are used to napping, but a little different when you're not able to spread out in the back of the truck. Brent did a great job making it cozy and made it a point to let them stretch their legs at every stop.
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| BROTHERS! |
I asked Brent to take photos of the state crossing signs.... he managed to get a few. :) I love geography and was really intrigued as to what route he was going to take!
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| Sioux City |
If we didn't have Brock & Kade, I think I would have liked to travel with him for the week... however extending the trip a bit to sight-see just a tad more at some places!
Helloooo Mississippi River!
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| St. Louis, Missouri |
He entered four states on Day 4 of his drive - Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee!
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| Oak Grove, Kentucky |
He made such great time, Brent was able to stay in Nashville for two nights to visit his parents, niece & nephew, sister and meet his new brother-in-law! Brent made the most of his time in Nashville, eating local barbecue and visiting his Aunt Joyce and Uncle Marion, whom he hasn't seen in almost 20 years!
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| Fines Creek |
FINALLY, he hit North Carolina..... and traffic. An eight hour day turned in to a ten hour day with construction traffic around Asheville. But alas, he made it before bedtime routines and the boys were so excited!!
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| Brent backing down Grandma's shared driveway |
Brock even made Brent a welcome sign! (He decorated it with dinosaur stickers and (reluctantly) wrote his "B" at the bottom.
All in all that was quite a lot of driving in six days!
The second best part (after Brent arriving here safely) was getting yummy homemade muffins from Grammy! We ALL had a muffin that night! Thank you!!
So happy to have Daddy back in the South with us! :)
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