And we're off....

The "Timms' Family Great Adventure of 2008" has officially begun! After a two hour orientation at the RV place, we headed home and loaded (i.e., threw the stuff inside) the RV and hit the road! We still have a good bit of organizing and rearranging to do once we reach our campsite tonight but we wanted to make sure we were out of town before rush hour hit Atlanta.

It is especially fitting that today just also happens to be PawPaw's birthday. We made him a cake with a slogan that the girls have now adopted as our theme for the trip!

Also-- the PANTS arrived! Actually, they didn't come yesterday and we had stopped our mail starting today-- but we were able to track them down at the post office this morning. Michael was on the radio with Kevin & Taylor again this morning and told them that we had the PANTS and they said to be sure to email pictures of the pants in intersting locations along the way. So that will be one of our 'things' to accomplish on this trip. Another one is that I want to get a picture at each state Welcome center as a memento of all the states we travel through. This afternoon, we got our first one in Alabama:

Michael has a goal of flying one of his RC planes in each state-- here he is flying the 'Gee-bee' that he brought along for this trip. It's a small foam plane (all that we had room to bring!) but he says it flies great.

Also, in the interest of reporting all that has happened thus far, I am pleased to report that I have already had my first successful turn at driving the RV! It was only for a few miles and I had quite a firm grip on the steering wheel but I did it! I think as long as I don't have to navigate any major cities or mountainous regions, I will be okay. It's really not as bad as imagine--- I think that is really the key-- don't think TOO much about how long and wide you are (except when turning or changing lanes, of course).

We are just going through Birmingham and according to "TomTom", we have 2 hrs and 45 minute until we reach our final destination. Thanks to all of you who I know have been and continue to pray for us while we are traveling.

Until next time...