Phase 2 of the move. Hello Texas!

On Tuesday Morning,  Justin and I  got up at 4 am and headed to Midland, Texas. At first it started out great, other then the fact that I only had a few hours of sleep.  We Drove in the Dark to Thatcher Arizona, and stopped for a potty break/ light breakfast at burger king. We ordered as usual, but noticed it was taking a while for her to put in. then she starts asking me about my day and acting like we knew each other.  I somewhat questioned her, and stated we were driving through from Mesa, and She stops and asks me if I was from here. I informed her I wasn’t and she kept asking. She then Informed me that I had a twin in Thatcher, that looked just like me.

After that we took off again and headed over to New Mexico. The Next stop for us was Las cruces. As we went through town I had two cops follow me through town. luckily they never pulled me over for anything. After Las Cruces we headed into Alamogordo and White Sands. A long stretch of nothing, Although the history is cool. Right as we were leaving White sands we went through a border patrol station. I didn’t think anything of it, as I have never had any issues at border patrol as a white, blonde, hundreds of years back American. As we pulled up, Justin got waved right through, as I was used to. Then when I got up there, They asked if I was an American citizen and I stated that I was. They then asked me Where I was going. I stated that I was moving with my husband, who was in front of me from Mesa Arizona to Midland Texas. Then, They asked me if I was hiding someone in my car. I told them I wasn’t, and that it was all just stuff for the move. They asked me again as 4 people came out from the building and they got a dog to smell my car. I once again stated that I was not. They then asked to search my car. I was getting frustrated as we were on a time constraint and My husband was up on the road waiting for me. But I had nothing to Hide so I agreed. I told them how to open the trunk, and they opened it. They let the dog jump into my car and smell around for a minute, as they lightly looked through it. They finally realized I wasn’t Lying about what was in my car and they let me go along.

I was not happy about the situation. I understand they were doing their job, but I seriously felt like I were accusing me and totally violated my stuff. FINALLY we moved on from that and continued. Our next mission was to find some Cherry Cider that is a favorite of Justins Family. WE stopped off in a place called Cloud croft. It was very pretty up there ans here was snow, but there was not cider.

 As we continued we stopped off at every store we came across in search of this Cider, with no avail. Finally we found a little roadside place that carried it. We had succeeded!

After that we started another long boring drive into Hobbs New Mexico. When I say long and boring, I mean LOOONG and BORING. I am pretty sure I lost my mind completely on that drive. It’s a 2 lane road, and all you see if Semis, Pumpjack, and miles of nothing. I was singing songs on the top of my mind, questioning life and everything in it ( its 42) and playing I spy with Justin, which usually consisted of seeing a pumpjack, a truck, or a cow.

 When we finally reached Hobbs we realized we were Very much behind schedule. We had planned to arrive in Midland at around 5 pm, and it was 5 pm in Hobbs, with another hour and a half drive into town.We did a quick drive by instead of stopping for Food, and headed back on the road into town. When we Finally arrived in town, it was to late to sign into apartment so we checked into the Hotel.

Now, in Midland/Odessa, Hotels and apartments are hard to come by and VERY expensive. My dad had found a cheap(ish) hotel. We checked in and went up to the room. At first it looked nice. There is a fridge and a microwave and nice looking room. Then, we went into the bathroom. It was not good. The tub was leaking, the door was broken. We thought oh well, we have a place so that’s what will happen. I went to take a shower and found out that the handle was broken, the shower head was broken and there was no stopper. So we went Ghetto and found a cup and used a cup and a rag to shower. It was awesome. Its actually a very good time to count my blessings. I found an apartment, we have a real shower and we only have to spend one night at this place.

The next day we check into our apartment, This problem with moving from another state and not looking at the apartment first is that we never realized that our apartment was so small. after check in, we went over to Uhaul, the check in at Uhaul went very smooth, then we went to ABF to pick up our stuff.

that ended up going very smoothly. It only took the two of us about 45 mins to unload the ABF trailer and load up the Uhaul. We headed to our new apartment and unloaded, We were able to meet a few people from the new ward cause they came and helped us. We FINALLY were in our new home!

Well that is everything for now!

Over and out-

Jess