Hello and welcome to the travels and travails of Maya and Matt!
We will be keeping this web log so that all our friends and family can keep up with us in the coming months as we travel around the country. I don't know how often this will actually get updated but the goal is for a couple a posts a week about the sights we are seeing and the things we're up to. So here's post number one:
We left Louisville on 28 February. Our car was literally packed to the top. We had tried to pare down to just what we really needed. But it’s really hard to put all the clothes, books and kitchen appliances you need for a year plus a computer and a rabbit cage into one car load. We spent a couple of hours that morning trying to get it all in. I kept saying we would find a way to bring it all and Maya kept bringing more boxes and baskets and bag out of the house and saying there was no way. Maya was so right. As it was we left 5 boxes behind. Fortunately we have people coming to visit soon! We rolled out at 12:26 with an odometer reading of 126371.
We will be keeping this web log so that all our friends and family can keep up with us in the coming months as we travel around the country. I don't know how often this will actually get updated but the goal is for a couple a posts a week about the sights we are seeing and the things we're up to. So here's post number one:
We left Louisville on 28 February. Our car was literally packed to the top. We had tried to pare down to just what we really needed. But it’s really hard to put all the clothes, books and kitchen appliances you need for a year plus a computer and a rabbit cage into one car load. We spent a couple of hours that morning trying to get it all in. I kept saying we would find a way to bring it all and Maya kept bringing more boxes and baskets and bag out of the house and saying there was no way. Maya was so right. As it was we left 5 boxes behind. Fortunately we have people coming to visit soon! We rolled out at 12:26 with an odometer reading of 126371.The trip itself went alright, for the first ten hours. Maya was cramped up with a backpack under her legs with Asher in his carrier on her lap so she was never really comfortable. I had plenty of space but I got really loopy by the 12th or 13th hour of driving. I felt like I had to stop RIGHT NOW, but I knew I couldn’t so I just kept driving. We thought that Asher would have a really hard time with the trip because he doesn’t even like to travel by car even around town. Actually, he seemed to fare the best of all three of us. Since it wasn’t start-stop driving and there weren’t any corners to turn he settled right down in the bottom of his carrier and just rode along as if he did it every day. Maya had a cup of water that she offered him every time he popped his head out. He drank when he needed to and didn’t when he didn’t. We stopped every few hours to let him get out and stretch his legs (and ours). He got a walk in Tennessee, and two in Alabama. 
We got to the hotel at 02:07 on the 29th and went almost immediately to sleep. It was not the best hotel ever. I cannot recommend the La Quinta Inn Tallahassee North. A plaque in the lobby said it won some kind of community environmental award in the 1980s but that must have been in its better days. We put Asher in the bathroom with his litter box, fresh greens and water. Again, he seems to have gotten the best deal. The bed was really lumpy. We slept through breakfast the next morning too!It was only as we left the hotel to go to our apartment to move in that we realized we had no idea where that was in relation to where were. We tried to use the little map in the corner of the Florida map he had but that wasn’t really a great help. 
After driving around in the general area without noticing our apartment complex we stopped and bought a Tallahassee map. That did help and soon we were in the office getting our keys. 
We parked in our numbered parking space at 12:27 with an odometer reading of 127031. On the plus side of moving in just one Rav4 is that there isn’t much to move in once you get there. We had everything in the apartment in about 40 minutes. The internet hook-up guy came later that day and so it was just like home. Only without a chinchilla, or a microwave, or a TV, or any sheets, or our furniture, or our decorations on the walls, or our family close by, or…
After driving around in the general area without noticing our apartment complex we stopped and bought a Tallahassee map. That did help and soon we were in the office getting our keys. 
We parked in our numbered parking space at 12:27 with an odometer reading of 127031. On the plus side of moving in just one Rav4 is that there isn’t much to move in once you get there. We had everything in the apartment in about 40 minutes. The internet hook-up guy came later that day and so it was just like home. Only without a chinchilla, or a microwave, or a TV, or any sheets, or our furniture, or our decorations on the walls, or our family close by, or…
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