10...9...8...7...6...5 the countdown has begun!

This is going to be a full packet 4 days!  My list consists of: getting the oil changed in both vehicles, closing our account, taking back the cable stuff, contacting our storage, going to the post office, finishing laundry, packing what clothes we want to take and to have with us.  Get the dogs bathed and their blankets washed and ready and getting the cats kennels cleaned and ready to go.  Whew!  It will get done, it always seems like it won't but it does. 

My last day at work was sad, sure didn't want to leave them.  The night before I did my ALS ice bucket challenge and they all surprised me by showing up and giving me their support.  We had planned for Curtis to dump the bucket on me, but the park that we went to just happen to have the Governor of New Hampshire there Maggie Hassan there and she did the honors.  It was all such a sock and surprise that it took me a couple of days to recover! 

With that being said, guess I need to get busy!  Hope everyone has had a great Labor Day and was safe!

Plotting the course...

Which way to go...do we go south first or do we just head west??  Trying to decide which way to travel to Oklahoma is really not that easy.  It would be nice to just jump in the car and head west.  Our ancestors did...didn't they?  Well, they may not have jumped in a car, but climbed up in the wagon.  But I am sure they had to have had something to navigate by....stars and moon! Ha!  But we do have one destination that we want to go to for sure and we have that way planned.  That is our surprise, so follow my blog to find out where we are going.  The rest of our journey is still up in the air for now.

We were contacted by our movers, Studdard Moving and Storage out of Leavenworth KS.  They have moved us back and forth across the country and we have had the same driver each time and trust him completely with our prized possessions.  It's a small wonder he didn't retire this last time they told him we were moving!  Some of our moves haven't been so smooth.  Once, they had to fly 2 people from KS to TX just to help him pack, because there just wasn't anyone to hire to pack and we had a 2600 sqft house at the time.  One move they had to park the truck by the highway and rent a small uhaul to bring our stuff to our house.  The roads were too narrow and there wasn't anywhere to turn a 52' truck around.  So they had to load, unload about a million times! 

Word of  advice for anyone moving and have movers come in to pack your things.  Throw away trash, wash your dishes and make sure you get rid of any veggies, like a bag of potatoes. Because it will be packed!  Our first move was quite comical, at our new house we were unpacking (didn't know they would unpack us)  so 6 months later we were still unpacking boxes.  We were unpacking and I grabbed something and thought...wonder what this is?  I unrolled it and started laughing...it was our logs from the fireplace at our old place!  So that shows you that they will pack everything!

This is where we live now in Berlin New Hampshire.  It's pronounced berr-len, not like Berlin Germany.  It has been the most awesome 9 months!  We arrived on December 2nd and the snow had just started, we drove up to our little house to see what it was like.  We took the house site unseen, I know scary...but our friends assured us it was a great little place and in great shape.  Without these friends we would arrived homeless and living in our cars.  Curtis had become friends with them when he was up here before when our restaurant had been destroyed in the hail storm in 2012.  Gene and John has a cousin that went into the nursing home and she didn't want her house to be empty during the winter.  She even allowed us to have our 2 dogs and 2 cats.  Our dogs are labs, so they are big.  Through all of this they have turned out to be better inside dogs than outside dogs.  When we move, it will seem odd that they will be outside once again...(we will see) lol.

 The people here are extremely nice and it is just beautiful here.  If you are an outdoors person this is THE STATE for you!  Winter, you can ski, snowshoe, cross-country ski and snowmobile.  Here they have trails that you can ride your snowmobile and some towns such as Berlin will allow them to ride on the street so the riders can access local business'.  In the spring,  summer and fall is for hiking, four wheeling, rafting and kayaking.  It is an amazing place.  So, you may be wondering...why are you leaving??  Curtis got a promotion and we are going to Oklahoma City.  Once again we will be driving cross country to our new home.  We plan to take a day to see something new and I am very excited!  Enjoy the pictures of where we are now and then later our adventure to Oklahoma City.