Day 1 - Sunday

Today was the inevitable sad day that we said goodbye to my family and hit the road back to Michigan.  It was very good for me to have so much time with them, and I feel satisfied with the trip.  Hate to say goodbye, though.  Especially when I don’t know when we’ll be able to come back.  Despite sending ourselves 2 boxes full of clothes we got out of storage, we have more stuff than when we drove to Montana.  My legspace is full of stuff and I have no room to move my legs.  I hope we can eventually shift stuff a little and make more room : )

[	Tags	|	travel	]
[	Current Location	|	AmericInn	]
[	mood	|	calm	]
[	music	|	TV	]

We made it up to Bozeman for a day and had an excellent time.  Lunch was spent at our favorite restaurant, La Parilla, a mandatory stop each time we are in Bozeman.  I had a barbecue chicken wrap (grilled chicken, bbq sauce, cilantro-lime rice, cheese, sour cream, black olives, corn salsa, and guacamole), one of my two favorites.  The other is a chicken fettucine alfredo wrap.  Yep, a tortilla with noodles in it.  It’s delicious!  J had his usual blackened salmon and a fajita.  Their fatty wraps are that good.   We had a bit of a surprise - the restaurant building had been picked up and moved across the street!

 Next we visited our stuff in the storage unit. We have a 20’ x 20’ unit that is chock full, including a big red car - a '75 Oldsmobile Delta 88.  I try not to get too attached to material things, but holy cow, it was exhilarating  to see all of our belongings.  I can’t wait until we have a home and can be surrounded by our things again.  I rather enjoy homemaking, and have had very limited opportunity for it the last year.  I went through some boxes and pulled out some clothes and toys for our infant.  I also found a book I have recently been considering purchasing, Moving Toward Balance, 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee.  I forgot that I owned it already!    After leaving our beloved stuff behind for another unknown length of time, we stopped at my favorite coffee shop, International Coffee Traders, and enjoyed a frozen Rocha Mocha.   Next was a stop at the Fieldhouse, to drop in on my college track coach.  He wasn’t in his office, so we let the little ones enjoy the fresh air and lawn for a while.  My old coach came and found us, and the first thing he said was to my husband – “You look like a rock star.”  We had a great time catching up.  He's one of my favorite people  Dinner was at the Mongolian BBQ with my sister in law.  It was a fun day.  I miss Bozeman very much, and J and I agree that we would like to live there again for a bit sometime in the not-too-near future.

[	Tags	|	travel	]
[	Current Location	|	Travelodge	]
[	mood	|	tired	]

Day one of our road trip to Montana went pretty well.  We tried to leave early enough to avoid driving through stupid Chicago during rush hour, which lasts from 5 am to 8 pm.  We did great, leaving only 1.5 hours late, but still took a very long time to drive through Chicago.  The boys didn’t complain too much about being in a car seat for so long.  Toward the end of the day when it was time to reboard the car after a stop,  my toddler would cry “Don’t want the green car!”  It was cute but sad.  We spent the night in Janesville Wisconsin.  We didn’t have to get up early <yay> since we’re taking it easy, had a nice hotel lobby breakfast and rolled out at noon.  It’s been a beautiful drive, with lots of lush green trees and colorful wildflowers at the side of the road.  We’ve seen countless farms with huge cornfields.  I rather like traveling. 

We stopped for dinner at a Perkins somewhere in Minnesota.  I had a delicious pasta dish with grilled chicken, tomatoes, spinach, artichoke hearts, black olives, alfredo sauce, and feta cheese.  Holy cow.  I ate way way too much, ‘cause how can you waste any of those yummy ingredients?  : )