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As I write this Chris is editing the video for last weeks Outland Adventures Thursday video/blog.
Saturday the 24th of February we were headed out to my sisters for the day, since we had a shop appt for Brunilda (the van) the following Monday we couldn't do much until then. The upcoming update will go into more detail, but we spent a week at my sisters while Chris and our amazing BIL fixed what broke.
Sunday the 3rd we went back to my Moms, picked up all our packages, and spent the night in her large driveway. Monday Chris did the brakes himself. (Saturday we went to our nieces second twirl competition! They all did awesome, but she's our favorite!)
Chris had been in communication recently with his uncle, who invited us to an event for the upcoming eclipse in Owensboro, KY. It has been years since Chris has seen them, and I've never met him so we decided to take them up on the offer.
Our other BIL (Chris' sister's husband) is a mechanic in Indiana and had offered to assist in any work we needed done a while ago as an open invitation. All this coupled with the warming weather and the shorter travel window before my next appointments (mid April) made the decision to travel KY and IN this next month or so pretty easy.
Don't worry, we'll get to Alabama eventually! (Potentially fall, but maybe we'll brave it in the summer, who knows...)
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller - Dr Richard Chambers.
As I write this we're sitting in Georgetown, KY. We're slowly meandering towards central Indiana, and plan to get there sometime tomorrow. While in Georgetown we've explored the town a little bit, when there was a break in the rain.
On the way here we stopped often, and had to hit up Buc-ee's in Richmond for gas, bathroom break, and snacks! Other stops weren't of anything "cool" because of the weather.
Going back, We spent the night at our home base (Kingsport, TN) Planet Fitness on Monday, would not recommend- extremely busy all night long, and rather loud. It felt safe enough to stay, but it's not a place I'd frequent for overnights if we were to stay local van lifers. Tuesday we spent running errands; laundry, groceries, banking, port flush, etc. Last night we stayed at a Walmart in a small town, that was much better. Far less noise and virtually no traffic. We both got much better sleep.
Tonight we're splurging on a cheap hotel, mainly because it's been raining and that means less power (because no solar), but also we wanted to take showers (while there is a PF here it doesn't allow overnight parking, there were about 100 signs stating such),and we really just wanted to stretch out and cook some dinner. The Walmart here didn't have any no overnight signs, so I suppose we could have done that, or looked for another spot, but we chose not to- we'd had enough of listening to it rain (since mid day yesterday) and just wanted to chill for the evening.
Now your caught up! We've completely changed course and are Indiana bound.
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