Road Trip Memories

Since many of my friends are making their way either to or from BYU-Idaho this week, it's made me think back on the many road trips I've been on throughout my life. Growing up, every single vacation we took involved long hours in the car. Driving from California to Utah for family reunions, going camping in the Sequoia National Park, or trips to Disneyland or the beach. Those all seem like a really long time ago, since it's probably been about ten years since my entire family took a trip like that together. Lots of fun memories!

The road trip I remember most clearly was right after Jake and I got married, when we made the long drive from my hometown in California up here to Rexburg, Idaho. We were exhausted after an amazing wedding day, and still sick from the colds we'd both gotten on our honeymoon, so that definitely didn't help make the drive go any more smoothly. What should have been an 18-hour drive ended up being about 20-22, because we were towing a very heavy trailer behind us filled with all the furniture we'd been so fortunate to be able to take from my grandparents' old house. We drove all the way to Salt Lake City in one day, and stayed at Jake's aunt's house for the night. I remember falling asleep in the car, and apparently when we were getting fairly close to Jake's aunt's, I started getting really grouchy. ...While I was still asleep. Apparently I even tried to open the car door so I could get out right then and there, and nearly gave Jake a heart attack since we were on the freeway haha. Poor guy! We'd only been married about a week, and Jake had NO idea what he was getting himself into!!

On the first day of our drive, we passed through a tiny corner of Arizona. So beautiful!

We made it to Rexburg in one piece (obviously, since we're both alive today) and that was the end of that. But I think the road trip I'm going to hate the most is going to be happening within the next 18 months, hopefully! Jake and I plan to move to Northern Texas once he has his AA, and that will be an even longer drive. We'll also be taking Zoe with us of course, so we'll have to stop more often to let her get out and stretch her legs and go to the bathroom. Zoe does NOT like long car rides, and insists on sitting in my lap every time we go anywhere, so that trip will be VERY long. Ugh!