Day 2: Waco

Today wasn’t quite as exciting as yesterday. I needed to take the truck window to get fixed so that errand took a big chunk of the day. The kids were over the moon they could stay in the RV with Jordan instead of driving to the mechanic shop with me. The only condition was they couldn’t bug him (too much) while he worked.

The windows were an easy fix and for that I’m grateful. We are borrowing my grandfather’s 15 year old Chevy Silverado 2500 to haul our trailer. When we picked it up it had less than 30,000 miles on it. The truck hasn’t been driven much over the last 2 years so we’ve had to do some minor, well, maybe moderate, tune ups. We are incredibly thankful to my PaPa for letting us borrow his truck. We would have had to buy a truck, which we would have done if necessary, but with a probable move in the next year buying a truck wasn’t desirable. He really helped make this trip possible. I had fun driving it around Waco today listening to Spotify’s 90’s country playlist. What is it about 90s country? I could sing that playlist beginning to end. Those song lyrics are seared into my brain. My day driving around made me think back to when I was in High School and College. I always liked boys who had trucks, but I’m hoping to convince Lucy it’s way more fun to drive trucks on your own instead of waiting for a boy to drive you in his.

When I returned, Hudson had some school work he needed to finish for this week. We tested out our “school table” in the bunkhouse and it worked well. Lucy painted while we were busy with school work. I love her artistic interest and ability.

Hudson and Lucy wanted to go swimming in Lake Waco so we all walked down to the water. Swimming turned into wading in the water a bit, until Lucy stepped on something and we all headed back.

The kids and Jordan played card games while I made dinner and then we all settled in for a movie night. We got about three quarters of the way into the movie before we started having internet issues. Internet connectivity is one of our biggest issues on this adventure. The kids will have to log on to Zooms for school and Jordan has to work. I tell the kids: we aren’t on vacation; we are just living life differently for 8 weeks. We have done our due diligence in booking sites with WiFi, but until we get there we won’t really know how they will work. Jordan has done a great job of researching the tools we need to increase our likelihood of getting internet. I don’t think those are even the right words to use – ha! I’ll have him write a blog post because tech stuff is not my wheelhouse.

Tomorrow night we will be in Decatur as we slowly make our way to Santa Fe.

Until next time…

Sarah