Here's me almost ready to travel 5300 miles in this minivan with 2 adults, 2 teens, a baby, a dog and a cat.


And here are the kids loaded up with pets and the bags of trash!


Farewell our old Virginia home... We've hit the state line!


The kids get a surprise at every state line we cross... When we got to West Virginia, Tess got some headphones and Donald got a new CD player. (They each already had working counterparts to their gifts.) At Ohio they both got journal supplies to document their journey.


The family gang in Ohio at the farewell BBQ. They even serenaded us with a lovely sound recording of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans singing Happy Trails.