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We have traveled to Ohio, Michigan, back to Illinois and then to Virginia, now on our way back to Illinois again and will be doing a few stops there and then off to Pennsylavania. I have been crocheting away and almost have the baby afghan done and need to find a new project to work on. We finished our audiobook that we started a month ago (it was a lot of books and it still isn't done but the new book doesn't come out til next year). I had downloaded some audio books onto the computer and Josh doesn't like them. The first one we tried to listen to is Pride and Prejudice which we both love but he doesn't like the narrators voice. The second one we tried was Letters from an Army Wife which is a real letters about an army wife that is traveling with her husband out west around the time of 1870. I love it because they are true letters and you tell by the way the wife writes she is an uptown girl and not used to being out in the "country" and is having a hard time adapting to the ways of the west. Josh isn't interested in this one at all, he thought the letters were from a army soldier to his wife and was hoping for some battles, he is more of an fiction action type guy and most of the time I am not. Biographies and real to life stories are what I crave but I have a feeling that this is going to be an ongoing battle on which stories we listen to.

Our truck was once again having starter problems and once again we complained to them about this and this time when the mechanics came out to look at it, it wouldn't start. Finally they can see the problem that we have been having all this time. It never would start and they gave us the option of getting a different truck or staying at the hotel and wait til they got that one fixed. Immediately I asked if they had a truck with the bunk beds and they said they didn't think so but they would look. We are walking down the long line of trucks and almost giving up hope when they found one, we looked inside and said yep SOLD! We spent the next hour and half unloading the old truck and getting stuff into the new truck. Josh I think is estatic about the new truck and there are quite a few reasons why. First and foremost is that it has bunk beds, I have been sleeping fine squished together in the single bed but I guess Josh hasn't and so he is loving the fact he doesn't have to worry about hogging the bed at night. I have to admit that the two nights I have slept alone it hasn't been all that good but that is partly due to we only have one cover and I wanted Josh to have it as it is more important that he sleeps good, I can always take naps. We have looked in different truck stops for blankets but surprisingly they dont have any right now as I guess since it is summer they don't have them in stock. Josh also says the suspension on this truck is better and doesn't bounce as much on the bumps, I can't tell the difference as I have the same exact type of seat as I did in the old truck. It does seem to have more storage as it does have higher ceilings so more cabinet space and the air conditioning is different too, before we had the air conditioner under the bed and it ran on a generator that was outside of the truck so this was very loud and vibrated the bed, now we have a system that runs on batteries and the only noise you really hear is the fan turning on and off to blow the air. It has done a great job so far but we really haven't been anywhere really hot at night. I hope the heat works just as well this winter. One big downfall of the new truck is that it didn't have an inverter to plug things into it, we had to buy one and have it installed. It says directly on it that it may not be able to power certain items and two of those items we own wont work on it, the laptop and the microwave. At least with the laptop I have another inverter that works quite well with it so I can at least still use it but the microwave is once again dead. We still have foods that doesn't need to be warmed up but it is becoming agrivating. The truck is a newer truck than we had before and a lot less miles but it still won't climb a hill with a loaded trailer worth a hoot, as Josh says it just doesn't have any heart. Oh and if you want to know Josh has the top bunk, I tried climbing up there as you have to have some moutain goat in you to do it but decided that if I got all the way up there I didn't know if I could get back down safely and so I get the bottom bunk which is what I wanted anyway so that way I am close to the potty! :)

Today when we were in Virginia we got on a bad road that shouldn't exsist! There were signs saying that trucks over 65 feet long should find another route and I wondered why the length of the truck would matter, everywhere we go there are height restrictions or even width restrictions but never had I seen length restrictions. Josh went anyway and we soon found out why, the road was terribly curved and most of the curves we had to use some of the other lane to get around them. We were on this road for almost an hour and it was a gut wrenching hour for me. Most of the curves had a 15 mph speed limit and a lot of the times there were no edges to the road and only a small metal guard rail that seperated you and the plunge of death. Josh was laughing at me and I think he was trying to make me relax but it didn't work. At one point a deer darted in front of us and Josh says he couldn't stop as we were going down hill on a precarious slope. Later he admited that the road tired him out too and when the gps was going to take us back to that road to leave town we decided to make our own way out of town and didn't care about how much longer that would take. Anyone that is in Virginia stay away from 501 South of Buena Vista!

I have so many more pictures to post but the internet isn't cooperating.  Will try to post soon.