move to nashville

I’m learning about traffic in Nashville. Traffic sucks I think… I’m starting to find. There seems to be 3 rings around the nashville area… all three lead you around the city in a cirlce, making it tough to get lost actually. So that has helped. We will be living in a sub-burb of Nashville called Mt. Juliet. It’s a great little place, population of less than 40,000. The schools are great for the girls (I have two), and the area is very friendly.
The weather so far – is best described by Bon Jovi and Hot, Sweet, and stcky. It’s a little humid to say the least, although it is bearable. It’s been a little rainy this week, but not too bad either. The weather is a lot different than California. We get a lot of lightning storms here in the summer I am hearing. We also have lightning bugs! Never had those before. The girls are having fun with them already.

OK – more later. If you want info on Nashville – let me know and I’ll help as much as possible!

OK – So we packed all our crap up, then realized that the 17’ truck I rented wasn’t big enough for all our valueable crap. So half of our crap didn’t make it on the truck! I sold some things off to friends, gave some stuff to others. But we got the majority of the things we wanted, into the truck.
We left at 1:05 on Wednesday afternnon, heading for Kingman, Arizona. Rand McNaly.com said it was a 9 hour drive – what a crock that is. It turned out to be about a 12 hour drive. We finally got there, butt ass tired. The kids did pretty well though, all things considered.
We left Arizona, headed towards New Mexico around 11:00am. We got into middle Arizona and ound out that this is Monsson season. That kinda sucked. I haven’t seen rain like that…. ever. We stopped in a little place, not even a city, called Park. Park community I was told. We stopped at the local grocery store\video rental\post office\gas station\hard ware store. It was cute.
We finally got to Alburquerque, N.M. around 1:45am. Another long day! We stayed at a La Quinta, very nice place. The girls got to go swimming in the pool before we went to breakfast and headed out of town, towards Oklahoma City.
I realized that there are a lot of cows in Texas. I am not a huge fan of cattle waste I determined. It wasn’t so bad though. We got into Oklahoma city around 10:00. We found that the Travelodge we booked, sucked. It was a small, crack whole motel. Never, ever stay there, unless you like green pools and hookers. Other than that – its a nice place. We did go to Frontier City for the day. It was a fun little amuzement park, set in a country theme.
We left Oklahoma around 9:00am headed for Little Rock, Arkansas. We got there around 7:00, not too bad considering we stopped a couple times. We lost our reservation listing for Little rock, but found a decent hotel that allowed dogs.. and they were close to a police station and Holiday inn with a great bar. So it wasn’t too bad. TZhey had a nice pool too for the kids.
We left Little Rock – finally headed for Nashville. We got into Nashville pretty early. Checked into our hotel around 5:00 and then set out to do a walk through of our new home.

The trip was pretty amazing.  I suggest anyone who has the opportunity, go by car cross country.  We saw every imagineable animal on the road, usually not in a living condition, but I did see a turtle crossing the street in Texas, I swerved so he went between the tires... not sure if he made it accross.  I wanted to stop and pick him\her up, but failed to get a space fast enough to pull over.  I learned that Flgstaff Arizona is a nice foresty area.  New Mexico is beautiful in the mornings.  Arizon is a dry heat, but it's still damn hot!  Crossing into Tennessee on I-40 is really pretty too.  It was a great trip!  I highl recommend it to anyone!  I have some pictures - but no way to get them online yet.

We have half a truck full of boxes, and we still have a lot more to load. I’m so tired. I have to work tomorrow, will take off half day and stay up late packing. My goal is to leave at 8am Wednesday morning… we’ll have to see about that.

So – Here is our new home. We leave on Wednesday the 23rd. We have packed all our “crap” and it’s all in boxes in the garage. We have someone coming to help me load it into a truck – then we are off.

Wanna see our new house?
http://realtor.com/Prop/1065150328

We visited Nashville twice for Fan Faire and fell in love with the area. We wanna move! The picture is of me and the girl who won the Ultimate Coyote!