I'm sitting at the Denver Airport waiting for my flight to Portland, OR. It's crazy how I have to come the opposite direction to get there. Can't get there from here!
I'm flying to North Bend, OR to help my friends Bill, Wendy and Darrin move to Utah. It is about a 1,000 mile drive. Doesn't seem like it would be that far. I will be driving one of their vehicle while Wendy drives the other. Bill will be driving the U-Haul. The plan is to pack everything up today and take off early in the morning. We'll get as far as Pendelton, OR (or further) the first day and finish the next. Joni is driving down in our new (new to us) 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe. I finally decided to get a reliable vehicle after the front wheel of my truck went flying off last week. That could have been bad. Luckily I managed to not roll the truck and got the truck off to the side of the road. I still haven't heard how much it's going to cost to fix. The Subaru is also in the shop. It smokes so dang bad I'm afraid it's going to catch fire. I traded the old Ford Windstar in for $1,000 even though they really didn't want to take it. First thing I did is get a decent stereo installed. It has a USB port. All I have to do is plug in a flash drive. No more scratched, melted CDs. COOL!
So anyway, Joni is driving down Friday. After getting everything unloaded on Saturday, Joni and I will head over to Park City, UT and watch an Elvis Costello concert at an outdoor amplitheater. I just checked. 40% chance of rain. We'll spend the night there and drive back to Missoula on Sunday. Man, everything is going to have to go as planned in order for all this to work. Now I'm getting nervous.
