The Road to Mexico...

So, it's been a while since I've written anything and I feel like I owe my followers (aka my mom) an update... Since my last post the following things have happened:

• I left my 3 training jobs and Ty left his management job
• We listed our super cute river house for sell and sold it for full price (twice!)
• We sold both our cars and bought a mini van instead (Don't get me started.)
• Ty bought like 5 sets of used golf clubs for his wannabe Mexican golf business (Oh boy.) 
• We had a two-day yard sale and sold absolutely everything that didn't fit in the mini van... (No cargo carrier on top, no trailer....everything we now own fits into a mini van!!)
• We sold so much of our furniture that we had to sleep on the floor our last night in the house
• Over this past weekend, we signed papers on our house, made a couple trips to the dump and to Goodwill...cleaned the whole house, loaded the van and LEFT TOWN on Monday afternoon.  

Oh, wait... Have I mentioned that we're not only moving to Mexico, but we're DRIVING there??  I don't know if I have yet on this blog.... We're driving to Puerto Vallarta.  And we're about halfway there at the moment.  We're currently shacked up in a hotel in Cedar City, Utah with our perfect pup in tow.

We left Seattle Monday afternoon and made the short trek to Portland so we could see our cousins and my parents one more time... Then Tuesday we drove east from Portland to Twin Falls, Idaho.  Today we drove south to Cedar City.  About 1200 miles so far.... 

There have been a lot of surprising things about our much-anticipated road trip so far:

• The speed limit has been 80 mph for a lot of our trip!!  Idaho and Utah are like desolate for hundreds of miles at a time... We've seen more cows than cars. 
• Um, people still get pulled over when the speed limit is 80 mph.  Seriously?  
• Idaho smells like cattle and the rest stops specifically state that unloading livestock is prohibited.  Ha.
• Bloo has been the most well-behaved puppy gentleman of all time.  (Not actually surprising, because he's perfect.  Duh.)  But seriously, he's been such a trooper.  I'm pretty sure he's just stoked to be with both his humans all day.  And as I type this, he is currently enjoying a queen-size bed to himself for the second night in a row.  
• I haven't been totally whiney about being boooooooored nearly as much as I thought I would have by now. 
• I've only sang like 50 Adele songs at the top of my lungs so far. 
• And Ty has yet to complain about it...

Another fun fact about our road trip is that very LITTLE of it is planned out.  We've only booked hotel rooms hours before showing up (with a 100-pound dog, no less)... We don't really know our routes until the day of and we don't even really know when we're crossing the border (or where we're staying in Mexico our first night.  Yikes!!)  Needless to say, we've just been enjoying the ride....  

Tomorrow we're gonna visit some nearby National Parks and then head to the Grand Canyon, simply because I've never been... From there we move south through Arizona and eventually cross the border in Nogales...before making the 2-day venture to our little La Cruz and then living happily ever after.  

More updates to come!