The Great Road Trip

On Monday, July 20th, we embarked on the beginning leg of our Great Summer Road Trip--Provo to Salt Lake City. Cousin Jarom, Uncle Craig, Husband Josh, Sister Darcy, and Sister's Boyfriend Tim caravaned to Salt Lake to help Craig and Jaclyn unload into their new apartment. Once each room of their apartment was sufficiently stuffed with boxes and furniture we headed over to the local grocery store, grabbed food for lunch and snacks, and left port of call--beginning our 2,000 mile road trip across the country.

"The first transport is away. Hooray!" (Star Wars quote, used 7,921 times during the trip.)


We spent all of Monday driving I-80 through Wyoming to Kearney, Nebraska. Our drive was interrupted every 2-3 hours with a driver rotation at gas stations. And at each gas station a handful of us would hop out of the Suburban ("Big Mama") and the Geo ("Tiny Tim") and throw the football back and forth across the lot.

We stopped in the middle of the night at Kearney, Nebraska to see Roger Simpson. Roger graciously met us at the nearest gas station and led us to their new apartment where we brushed our teeth, napped on the couch, and chatted with the ever charming host. An hour later we moved on to the next official stop: Saint Louis.

Funniest part of the leg: All day Craig had been quoting the scary bad dwarf in Chronicles of Narnia--the part where the dwarf is talking to Edmund: "Do you want some num-nums?!" Craig was very good at using the same creepy voice. As we were turning into the gas station in Kearney the Suburban made this crazy grinding noise. The four of us awake listened intently, trying to figure out what was wrong with the car. "What was that noise?..." Craig woke up from the back of the car and creepily said, "It was the sound of my desire for the num-nums!" We all laughed and laughed and laughed.....wish I had the audio.