And so begins our journey to Kansas. Today marks day one for travel. This past weekend was filled with packing, loading, visiting with friends, cleaning, packing, goodbyes to friends, loading and some more cleaning. Follwed up with a six hour drive and we’ve made it to Onterior, OR. Staying at the Motel 6 with the two pups and cat… and we’re completely exhausted.
Leaving Portland today was hard… but not impossible. It’s a pretty bitter sweet experience leaving. Lots to miss, but so much to look forward to. Commencement. Here’s to the next chapter!
So. I’m attaching some photos for fun and stuff but getting delirious, so no more typy typie.
It’s official! We’re going to Sayulita in the beginning of May! Laura and I are brushing up on our Spanish and very excited to get some vacation that doesn’t involve… well, doing anything.
We leave April 30th and return May 7th. Anyone up for watching a pair of pouches for a week? Current plan is to board them. 
Well, it’s fairly official. We’re heading to Me-hee-co in late April slash early May for Laura’s (and Lauren’s) 30th birthday!! Lauren and Laura came up with the idea and Shad and I have been fully supportive like good husbands that have no issue with drinking on the beach do. Started out thinking we’d head to Hawaii, but after looking at costs, Mexico looks a lot better. Plan is to rent a house in Sayulita as per Isaac’s recommendation. Very exciting. This’ll be my first time south of the board. Can’t wait for a little R&R too. The basic plan, I believe, is to go to Sayulita, get a bunch of cheap beer and taquilla, find a lawn chair on the beach and not move for 5-7 days. Awesome. This’ll be the first real trip Laura and I have taken since 2008 when we went to Asia, so we’re totally pumped. And by “real trip” I mean a trip that doesn’t include going to Minneapolis and/or Lawrence. In other words, it’ll be our first real vacation in quite some time. We’re excited. Did I say that? I think I did.
Laura and I have been on the road for more or less the past month. In the month of August we had two midwest wedding to attend and one weekend of bachelor/bachelorette parties. So rather than flying back and forth and trying to find a dog sitter for three weekends plus, we just thought we’d load up the car and make a road trip out of it. And now, 6300+ miles later, Laura, Charlie and I are back home with about 1000 new pictures. It was really a great trip overall. We saw a lot of family and friends along with about half a dozen national and state parks. To keep expenses low (and due to hotels not all being too keen on dogs) we camped out for most of our time on the road. We hit up 11 states in all: Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah and, of course, Oregon.
Need to go into more detail on the trip, but as time passes, it’s harder to blog on the past. Lesson to learn? Blog in real time.
But check out my picks: on the blog or on picasa.