Travel day #2... oh, wait. make that #1

so, here we are.... sitting in some hotel in the beginning part of kentucky (for us the beginning part this time is near west virginia) I have no idea what the name of this town is.... i don't think that there is even a piece of paper with the name of it. we are livin' the large life though... here in a Super 8!! it auctually doesn't have a funky odor to it, the hotel last night did, which was unfortunate.
anyway it's been an interesting journey getting here. monday & tuesday we were busy packing and running final errands in Raleigh... we were supposed to close at 12:30, but the lawyer's weren't ready til 4.... which meant that we couldn't get our check until Wednesday around noon.... we packed and re-packed the trailer and tahoe and still couldn't fit everything... so after closing (when it was dark) we had to go back to the house and finish packing, and it was cold and rainy, and no fun!! we finally got done packing around 7:45 and took off to burlington
the check engine light came on and we had to get that checked out (at the place we bought it in burlington) before we took off across the country..... so we got a hotel in burlington with the intention of getting the car checked out early in the morning and then taking off from there.... our real estate agent was going to pick up the check and deposit it for us which was going to be breat, but seeing as i'm talking about that in the past form that didn't happen.....
while we were driving to burlington Marco remembered that we left our bikes and dehumidifier in the closet on the back porch... UG!! so we decided to come back to raleigh after we got the car fixed, get the bikes and the check. which turned out to be a cool thing cause our friends, Jason and Tinka, had their baby and we went by the hospital and saw her..... she was such a beautiful little girl. so small. marco was afraid to hold her she was so small. she was so soft. her name is Kiera (not exactly sure on the spelling, but shout out to Tiffany!!) so that was fun.
We headed out of Raleigh between 1:30 and 2:00.... I drove thru NC and VA all the way to exit 45 in WV where marco took over. I'm proud of myself for driving so far... i generally get sleepy after an hour and get marco to drive, but i was determined this time!!
We're really excited to finally be on the road. we haven't had any bad weather yet, a little wind that has been wobbling the trailer a little, but nothing too bad, after yesterday we haven't had any rain or snow which we're really thankful for. Our plan for tomorrow is to get to Kansas City....