Here we (me & Gaia) sit on our king sized bed in a hotel in Bozeman. Adam is washing the last 675 miles off. Actually, no, now he's opening a beer and eating popcorn while walking around in a towel and marveling at the number of TV's in this "suite."
The morning should have been uneventful - just packing, loading the car, and going. All going to plan until the second load down to the truck, in which we arrived at the truck and realized we had zero keys on our collective person. So I went around knocking on every unit that had an outside door, but with no luck. Adam pretty much stayed and guarded the laptop bags and skis. I was able to follow some neighbors into the next building over, then had to sort my way through the labyrinth to get back to where Adam was waiting. Then we had to break into the apartment door, which was disturbingly easy. Only set us back 45 minutes and we were still over Snoqualmie Pass by noon - which is about the time we realized we forgot the dog food & bowls. A Trader Joe's stop in Spokane, a walk over to Petco, and Gaia was back in business. We picked up a squeaky duck that lasted about a hundred miles until the next pee stop, at which point we found its guts all over the back of the truck.
Gaia's Thundershirt (an early Christmas present from Jo) has proven quite useful in the last 10 hours. She's still not EXCITED about being in the car, but she's not whining and barking ALL the time, which is a huge improvement. If I had been able to locate the doggie sedatives last night, it may have been totally silent.
And, Adam just found the apartment keys that have been missing since September, when he originally got them. He had to copy my keys when we first moved in, because he put his in his "every day" laptop bag - every day in UNDERGRAD. It would have been wholly ironic if that bag had been outside with us this morning, but we're pretty sure it wasn't. (Pretty sure.)
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