Today we woke up to snow and road closures. What does it take, are these a.m. weather disasters destined to follow us the entire way. We scanned the internet, watched the T.V., even considered one more day at this great hotel. But NO I thought, I'm originally from Ontario - I can do this, so we left at 8:30 heading down 285S and then onto I40 East. I went out to load the luggage into the back and cab of the truck and got prepared to wipe off the snow when I tho...

We left Kingman Arizona at 8:10 a.m. (Mileage 35320) and headed out onto Interstate 40 for Santa Fe New Mexico. Deb has been looking forward to this for most of the trip. The problem is that there is a very cold jet stream that has blanketed the western and southwestern U.S. in a blanket of extreme cold. I40 was in terrible shape, no road closures mind you, but because of the wide open spaces, and let me tell you wide open is no understatement - the winds race ...

Wouldn't you know it, we woke up in Reno to a Winter Storm Warning - Roads Closed and only vehicles with chains could proceed. There were lots of road closures but it seemed that the closures were to be lifted around 1:00 p.m. so we decided to have a nice breakfast at The Milano Cafe in the Peppermill - take some time and check out at 11:00 a.m. Downtown Reno was quite a mess, but we decided to "roll the dice" and head out towards Las Vegas. After we got out of ...

When we got up this morning in Grants Pass, it was snowing to beat the storm. We were glad that we made the extra effort to get through the mountains to reach Grants on Thursday night or we really could have been in trouble on Friday morning. Special thanks to my amazing landlord, Rob Siebert. Rob drove Deb and I down to Bellingham to pickup the U-Haul truck so that we could leave our car in the driveway. Not only did Rob drive us to Bellingham but he helped me ...

Today marks the day for the start of our U-Haul 5-day cross country trip from Bellingham, Washington to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The route plan will take us from Bellingham to Grant's Pass, Oregon the first night - hopefully no snow enroute. From there we'll be updating from Reno, Nevada, Las Vegas (of course Las Vegas), Nevada, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Oklahoma City, OK before rolling into Deborah's daughter in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Our plan is to stay in T...