At 5 a.m. on December 12th, we left San Diego for Austin. Mom was driving Dad's car with me and Bruiser in the back and Dad was driving the 17 foot U-haul truck pulling the trailer with Mom's car on it. They had decided to drive in tandem and stay in contact via walkie talkie (since they both are pretty handy with the radios).
I felt pretty bad for Mom cuz I know she could drive much faster than Dad, who was limited to about 60 MPH. So after about 15 HOURS of driving, we finally made it to El Paso.
Having learned from the mistakes of the first day of driving, Dad got up extra early on the 13th and left 2 hours before we did. That was nice because we got some extra sleep and our view that day wasn't of the back of the U-haul.
Even though we left El Paso 2 hours after Dad, we got to Austin over a half an hour before him. We made very good time considering we made a lot of stops so Bruiser and I could run around and stretch our legs. We made such good time, in fact, that two separate police officers decided to stop Mom in the space of 1 hour to congratulate her. They both even gave her some sort of slip as a reminder of what good time she was making. She was kinda grumpy when I asked about the slips so I'm not sure exactly how they chose to congratulate her.....
In spite of all of that, the whole family finally made it to Austin after 11 HOURS of driving the second day by Dad. We were finally here!!!!!!!
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