sun valley

We made it! I am so relieved to finally be here. A road trip that long is pretty monumental and an event to be documented. However, given how exhausted I was feeling before we left I didn't actually enjoy the trip that much. The best part was discussing the road signs with Mr. Chunglund via the walkie talkie. Signs advertising for hillbilly figurines, 50% off meteorites, every kind of museum you could think of including, among others, the American Quarter Horse Museum and the National Teachers Hall of Fame and Museum, free polished petrified wood, several Cherokee trading posts boasting rattlesnake products, and the largest discount saddle store in the world advertised on the same billboard as a kabuki theater.

The last day of travel was the most scenic. New Mexico was really beautiful and we drove through the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Driving south out of the mountains into Phoenix was absolutely gorgeous and we talked about how some day we can go camping there with Baby J. We also talked about how in three or four years, Baby J is going to be asking to stop at the Cherokee trading post or to get some free polished petrified wood and we'll likely oblige.

While we didn't get any photos to document Baby J's first cross-country road trip, we managed to arrive safe and sound! Mr. Chunglund and Baby J are out running errands this morning. I stayed home and waited for the utility guy and the cable guy to show up. Tomorrow our stuff is supposed to show up in a moving truck. The sun  is shining and I'm wearing flip flops. It could be worse! We have officially arrived in the Sun Valley!