Getting Ready to Hit the Road Again

I've finally finished up the tough work of four weeks of vacation this summer and returning back to serious retirement. My wife is getting ready to go back to teaching beginning next week so I'm getting ready to take a driveaway trip. That will be the first since early in June.

I've been so busy with the vacation travels and tasks around home the few weeks I was here that I haven't really missed being on the road. But it feels right that now is about the time to go again.

Called dispatch this morning to let them know I'd be ready around noon on Tuesday. I have a mandatory school bus drivers meeting that morning, but think I'd be ready to just go on out on the road following that. I don't really want to drive the school bus this year, but since they trained me for the CDL, which allows my driveaway work, and my wife wants me to keep assisting her with her class field trips, I feel I need to stick with it at least another year.

We're buying a little fixer-upper in Choteau, MT that is supposed to close on 8/25/06. I plan to go back to Montana 9/6 - 9/13, so that's going to cut in to some of my driveaway gigs this fall. I suspect I'll need to go back out there again mid-fall to check on some of the work we're having done on the place. I'm hoping Spirit Miller, my driveaway firm, might be able to get me in a truck out that way. This time, I found airfare for $118 from RDU (Raleigh, NC) to Spokane, WA, which is about 350 miles from Choteau, so I'm going to be flying out.

For all you serious driveaway blog fans, in the meantime, entertain yourselves by reading back through my archives by clicking on the links on the left side of this page.