We here at 10 Gallon Hat would like to make a recommendation. If you are going to be taking a road trip with multiple people in multiple vehicles, we suggest you use these Motorola Walkie-Talkies. They work wonderfully while on the road.

Before we were on the road I mentioned to Teresa that I wanted to get us some walkie-talkies just for communicating back and forth. She didn’t understand why since we both have cell phones and could just talk back and forth that way. I insisted that we were on a road trip, and in a kind of caravan. Walkie-talkies were a must. We found these for the right price and purchased them.

Once on the road they were great. They worked at far distances, and were much easier than using cell phones. Who wants to pick up the phone and male a call just to say “I need to take this exit so I can pee”? Nobody, thats who! With just the push of a button you could send a quick message. It was a lot like IM’ing, but over the airwaves.

Next time you travel, pick some of these up. At under $10 each, how can you go wrong?

Like

Unlike

So…it is obvious now that Wylie is a) more adept with technology and b) better at staying awake long enough to post things at night. We have definitely been on the go this past week–quite whirl-windy actually. It was harder than I thought it would be to roll out of Auburn–as some of the best people I know are there…but exciting to start this adventure and accompany Wylie on his furthest drive West…I ended up having to leave my couch in Auburn–which some of you know was one of the best (and ugliest) $30 couches in all the world, so it was a good thing that I had 2 days of driving to do some mourning.

The drive out here seemed long (partly, I’m sure, because both of us were running on less sleep and more adrenaline than usual) but with the help of walkie-talkies we made it! Bryan/College Station seems like it will be an interesting place to spend a year. We have already been having all kinds of explorations–grocery stores and Target and a few restaurants already. There seems to be an abundance of Taquiera-type Mexican places around, which is something I have been missing for the last 4 years, so hooray for that!

The trip to Austin was good too. I am pretty much thrilled to be so close and get to do some exploring there as well. The drive from here to there is mostly through farms and ranches. There were fields and fields of what appeared to be dead corn, and it looked kind of eerie…so if anyone can shed some light on what that is all about, please do!

Tomorrow Wylie will start working from home, so he got the office all set up for us today, and it is quite nice (see photo below)…although I will be sad to not have an exploring partner tomorrow afternoon…

Anyway…it’s old news now, but we made it! It doesn’t suck! Hooray!

Like

Unlike

Here we are, some photos from our trip down here to Texas. Starting in Auburn and ending on our second day here. I apologize for the lateness of this post. We just got internet installed today and there was some trouble with the wireless. Everything is settled now and we are surfing the webs wherever we want. We will be posting some more about our happenings, but it is late, and we have had a big week.

Enjoy the pictures!

And here is a video of our new place.

Like

Unlike

During the trip down I tweeted about our trip. Here is the whole string:

	Wylie posted Thanks all for the safe travel tweets. So far so good! #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Down in Auburn, AL. Truck is all packed and ready to go in the morning. Tired and sore, but full on Mellow Mushroom! #avl2tx
	Wylie posted First, breakfas,t than driving for 6 hours. That’s the plan. End of the day will have me and @tessb42 in Baton Rouge. #avl2tx
	Wylie posted At a flying J for some relief http://bit.ly/MWIYP #avl2tx
	Wylie posted http://twitpic.com/adglo – Getting gas in Mississippi #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Finally in Baton Rouge. Time to find some dinner #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Need more sleep, or maybe just coffee, not ready for the road quite yet. #avl2tx
	Wylie posted in the Bayou #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Ah the flatness http://twitpic.com/afsil http://bit.ly/RSwHR #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Hello Texas! #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Finally in Bryan, TX! http://twitpic.com/ahuc0 http://bit.ly/YULkT #avl2tx
	Wylie posted RT @wylie: Finally in Bryan, TX! http://twitpic.com/ahuc0 http://bit.ly/YULkT #avl2tx

Like

Unlike

‘Twas the night before moving,

and all through the house…

All the boxes were waiting,

they’ll quite soon be roused!

That’s right, folks! Move day is upon us! Wylie will get the truck in the morning and we will fill it up and be on our way (in 2 shifts—Ahseville to Auburn; Auburn to College Station, with a night somewhere in between…)!!! We will be on the lookout for interesting things along the way, so check back often!

I guess I better try to get some sleep or something…

Like

Unlike