Comments on: Travel Update

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:28:50 +0000

I haven’t moved for 12 years, and when I look around this place the very idea gives me cold chills. I hope neither of your children do to you what I did to my poor parents when I was seven and we were moving from California to Boulder, Colorado. I broke my arm at the dinner stop outside Colorado Springs. Thereby hangs a tale, of course.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:39:49 +0000

Heh heh, I remember cleaning out the fridge at 1am before our moving day a few months ago! That certainly wasn’t to schedule! I hope you all arrived safely and are settling in. Viewed from afar, your moving journey sounds very exciting!

By: runninL8

runninL8 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:55:33 +0000

Let me just say…WIKI STIKS!!!! I’d never heard of them but I gave them to Lo on the plane the other day. She’d never seen these things so the novelty of it worked wonders. But they’re kinda cool! They’re like peices of string covered in a tacky wax so they are flexable, moldable and can stick to windows and such. When they are done just pull the peices apart for the next time.
i know you’re not on a plane but making barf bag puppets was a BIG hit as well. Just cut out stuff from mags to make eyes, nose, mouth, etc.

Your 5 moving tips are bringin’ back some BAD memories!!!!!

HAPPY travels!!!!

By: Alida

Alida — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:51:14 +0000

Cool! We are going to be neighbors. Let me be the first resident of Oregon to welcome you to Idaho.

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:56:25 +0000

I was wondering how things are going. Exciting that the time is now, and you are almost there! Can’t wait for photos.

I’m inspired by your move and driving with kids and cats. We almost moved to Oregon 2 years ago but the whole kid/pets/moving/chaos seemed, well, crazy. But the boys are older and sometimes we feel that itch…

I have moved in a van with cats 3 times across the country (before kids) and it is hard! I have used rescue remedy to help calm them down which seemed to be very good. I’ll have to remember the other tips – sounds like good options.

Ah, Cabela’s outlets – sounds like Iowa!

By: henitsirk

henitsirk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:38:00 +0000

Charl: The cats are being just amazing. I was truly afraid we would have to bury one of them on the side of the highway after too much trauma.

Dawn: I always forget how much work it is too! Must be that selective memory like birth pains.

Lisa Anne: I gave everyone a shot of Rescue Remedy on the first day, and even brought drops to put in the cats’ water bowl. But it has seemed unnecessary, thankfully.

Nana: It does kind of feel like a one-family wagon train. And there has been some singing of happy songs!

Goodwitch: Well, I’m a California native, but I did like New York!

Papa B: None of the above: we have stopped for nothing! Not even the Cabela’s outlets we keep passing, which has pained Anthropapa. And not even for the “Wyoming Territorial Prison State Park”, which totally stumped us until we saw the billboard showing that it was where Butch Cassidy was imprisoned.

By: Papa Bradstein

Papa Bradstein — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:04:24 +0000

I’m so late catching up…so, didja stop at Wall Drug? Devil’s Tower? Little Bighorn? Or were you farther south…Ames Monument? Snowy Range? Wherever you went, I hope you had good travels and a safe arrival.

By: the goodwitch

the goodwitch — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:30:32 +0000

That was a great post! I’ve been thinking of your family and wondering how the move is going….sounds like it’s about as good as any cross-country move can be. Hey, from one Californian to another, I say, “At least you’re out of NY!”

By: Nana

Nana — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:25:45 +0000

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

I am picturing you and Pa on the front of the wagon; he is handling the horses and you are singing happy tunes while waving to the friendly Indians you pass by. The kids and the cats are, of course, in the the covered part of the wagon – also singing and hanging onto the nearest heavy object for dear life- especially the cats.

Please remember – you can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd!

By: Lisa Anne

Lisa Anne — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:17:11 +0000

Thanks for the update, I just read the book “Walk Two Moons”, about a 13 yo girl who rides from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents; great book, but also sad. But the idea of this long road trip made me think of you.
Too bad they don’t have some sort of spray for kids like you have for your cats, something for parents, too (maybe Rescue Remedy would be our equivalent).