The last time I posted “My Life Story” I ended with Ladybear’s plane landing on schedule on Friday afternoon. We took the long way back to the house in Aloha so that I could show her some of the city as she had never been this far west before, I would have liked to have been able to make a quick trip out to the coast but that was not possible as she needed to be back at work at 9am Monday morning. When we got back to the house we continued to go thro things, what I would be taking with me, what would be picked up on Sat afternoon by a friend of mine and taken to Goodwill and what would be thrown away. It was 2am by the time we crawled in to bed, we were so tired that we just snuggled against each other and went right to sleep.
Saturday morning we packed what I was taking with me into the back of my ½ ton Sierra, went around and said my good byes to the neighbors. We hit the road at exactly 12:02 pm, it was a nice warm and sunny spring day. Heading east on I-84 through the gorge I was excited yet a bit apprehensive, while looking forward to starting a whole new life in OKC with The Bear and Ladybear and the kids I was still kinda wondering in the back of my mind if leaving Oregon was the right thing for me to do. I decided to stop at the last moment so Ladybear could at least see Multnomah Falls ( http://www.oregon.com/trips/multnomah_falls.cfm )from the visitors center. We hopped back in the truck and drove almost all the way to the Idaho border when we stopped for gas and dinner. We were back on the road at about 8, the skies were clear as night fall came. At about 10 LB got behind the wheel and I laid across the seat to get some sleep, I must have been more exhausted than I thought because I usually don’t do anything more than kinda drift in and out, but the next thing I know I am hearing the lady on the radio saying “it’s 3 am and snowing here in Laramie”, I quickly set up and look out the window to find it snowing so hard that you could only see a couple of hundred yards ahead, I grew up in Nebraska and she had grown up in upstate New York so driving in snow was nothing new to either of us. After giving me a few minutes to wake up she said that from about midnight to 2 we were only going about 45 mph because of blowing snow. I asked her why she didn’t wake me up to take over driving earlier she said that she was enjoying listening to me snore, knowing that I can snore loud enough to vibrate the neighbors house I decided to change the subject and told her to pull off at the next exit. We put the harness and leash on the cat (no she didn’t like that one bit) and we got out so that all three of us could stretch our legs.
Just before dawn we stopped for gas and breakfast. The sun was just coming over the horizon when we hit the road again now heading south towards Denver. Looked like in spite of last nights blizzard we were in store for another beautiful spring day. We skirted around the north east side of Denver and headed east again on I-70. At about 4 we were both so tired even though we had been trading off driving and getting cat naps that we decided to pull over and take a nap, so we pulled into a rest stop, got as comfy as we could in the truck, I had to hang my feet out the drivers window to be able to straighten my legs at all.
We woke to the sun shining directly in to the cab about an hour later. Clear skies above, some high clouds coming in from the west, it was looking a little dark on the western horizon though. That was a long way away so I didn’t give it anymore notice. Got back on east bound I-70 and then headed south on I-35 that would take us all the way to OKC. Night fall come rather early as a thunder storm hit not long before we hit the Oklahoma border. Now as a kid I loved thunder storms, but having not experience on in over a decade ( here in Oregon the don’t have a clue as to what a real thunder storm is like ) I was a bit nervous, the wind driven rain, the lightning, the thunder and fact of being on the road almost nonstop for more than thirty hours was making me a bit weary. LB snuggled up to me as I drove and we just kept on going. About an hour out of OKC the storm cleared and we seem to sail the rest of the way. I turned the truck off in the apartment complex parking lot in Moore (a south side suburb of OKC) at 12:32am, exactly 36.5 hours on the road. We grabbed the cat and the liter box, locked up the truck and headed inside. Miss B (LB’s 10 year old daughter from her first marriage) came stumbling out of her room just after we closed the front door, gave each of us a big hug and went right back to bed. LB decided that since she had me all to herself for the last two days that The Bear and I needed some bonding time so she tucked me into bed with TB and she went to sleep on the couch. TB stirred a bit, then realized I was there and gave me a kiss, then snuggled up to me with his back to my chest, pulled my arm around him and we both went right to sleep…..
Well its midnight here, so I’m off to bed. Good night everyone.
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