Joey's Move to Wichita
Joey's Americorps job with Habitat for Humanity began September 13th in Wichita. She and I picked up a 16-foot Penske truck last Wednesday afternoon and the whirlwind began. At the hotel in Wichita - why do my children always make faces for the camera? Our friends, the Dykemans, gave her a ton of furniture so our first trip with the truck was to their house to pick up lamps, a love seat, patio furniture, a night stand...They basically furnished her whole apartment, bless their generous hearts! Joey's little patio with furniture from the Dykemans We finished loading the truck at our house at about 9:00 pm and left Thursday morning at 6:30 am. I drove the truck and Joey drove her car. We both had GPS units and cell phones so we tag teamed for almost 14 hours to Wichita. The truck was quite new - it only had 9000 miles on it - and drove easily. The only problem was that I got rained on inside the cab. Luckily we only had rain for a few hours. Our Penske truck - boy were we happy w...