We drove from Alaska to Florida in 2 weeks! It can be done with out killing a car, killing an animal or killing each other. I wish I could go through each day, well I could but I would be on here a week or two trying to go through the details so I will hit the highlights. We started in Anchorage and drove to Valdez, stayed there a few days and packed up the car, then we took off into the wild green yonder of Alaska and Canada the Yukon Territory! We saw soooo many animals like, caribou, moose, black and brown bears, stone sheep, elk, deer, buffalo, and all sorts of birds. The scenery in northern Canada is AMAZING words just don't do it justice. We tried to make it in by The 2nd of May to Vancouver, BC because an LDS temple was going to be dedicated there that Sunday and we just made it!!! It was amazing we even got to watch the festival the night before. That was amazing! We entered the lower 48 and went to see Western Washington University where I went to college. That was really neat to show Herbert around my ole stomping grounds. We went to visit some college buddies, Casey and Russel Rigby and David and Cody Koenig. So great to see them again and hear all the exciting things going on in their lives.
We made it through Oregon into Idaho and unloaded our overloaded car, at one point Herbert had the back open and was taking through all our stuff and I was in the front seat oblivious to anything he was saying, that is how packed our car was. We thankfully had a storage unit and unloaded and we could see out the back of our car! what a novelty! Something we definitely take for granted every day. In 1 day we found an apartment, I had a job interview and we got all the paperwork done for Herbert we needed too. It was amazing. MIRACLE STORY: We went camping that night and it was freeeeeeezinggggggg, colder than I have been in a LONG time, and the cows were mooooooing all night and the side of the road that was suggested to us wasn't as great as we thought, (for the full story ask us sometime) so the next morning we had to go back to BYUIdaho and finish some paperwork and when we got there we realized Herberts ring was gone!!!! We searched EVERYWHERE!!! We called the places we had stopped at and finally drove out to the place we had camped. Said a prayer and got out of the car and found it. What a MIRACLE!!!!! It was a great learning experience! So we continued on our trip, we drove to Utah and had dinner with Sarah then headed down to Southern Utah and camped at an awesome sandy spot off the road a little sooo much warmer!!!! The next day we went to the Grand Canyon and had a lot of fun taking pictures. Then headed to Tuscan Arizona to visit family. Then the long, flat, boring, dusty, dry drive from Arizona through New Mexico where we stopped in Roswell and it was everything I had ever expected. Then over through Texas and Oklahoma where we saw dust storms and 2 days later learned there was a Tornado right where we drove through!!! Headed to Arkansas next to see a Mission friend and had the biggest pizza of our lives there, 4 pizzas combined into 1, it was AMAZING!! We then headed to Georgia and now Louisiana is the only state in the South that I haven't been to. We visited friends in Georgia and finally entered Florida. Our favorite sign in Georgia on the side of the road that we felt depicted the edumication sometimes people stereotypically receive in the South was, a sign that read, PECHS written about 5 feet tall on the side of a barn on a back road. We laughed really hard and were tempted to go back and take a picture. We finally arrived in Florida starting the next adventure in our lives. =)
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