Firefly Bound: The way life should be!

Day 6 brought on Ohio and Pennsylvania, for which, we dug out a giant ziplock bag which contained ALL of the change our home had been collecting for 4 years. Tolls, people, tolls, we forgot about the tolls. You can drive from Seattle clear across our great continent and not hit one toll until Ohio. My children had never seen one before. After the first two Eli said, "Dad, what are you buying!" Anna Grace kept saying "Hey you gave him our money!" Camden was as amused by the tolls as he was by the Buffalo.

We finally arrived at our first destination outside of Philadelphia on Day 6. Right on time. Literally right on time. A month before we left I called one of my best girlfriends and said I think we will be there on the 16th around 5:00PM. Voila. This only goes to show it is possible to be on time for most any event, and will be brought up plenty of times when my husband can't manage to get home from work on time a mere 20 miles away.

It felt good to be in someone's home rather than a hotel despite feeling like we had to make our own beds. We got to see people we love and it made it all the better knowing we would see them again in less than a year for less than $2500 in airline tickets. We spent a few nights in Philadelphia and then headed to NY to visit with some family.

And then finally, after 9 long days on the road we made it. We made it to Maine. And you have to feel good about moving somewhere with a welcome sign like this....

All my contemplations about this being the right choice for our family were put to ease at my first glance of Casco Bay. Done. The air smelled salty, the breeze off the ocean was perfect. The sky is just a different kind of blue here, it's energizing and goes on forever, and you can sense the ocean is "just over there."

The first few days brought discovering our new (200 year old) home for now, our dream of a town and scenes like the following. I loved how dirty they all got, dirt from head to toe. This is the kind of yard that requires a daily bath, and that's just fine with us.