Well, Richard and Dan finally decided that college wasn’t cool enough for them anymore and went ahead and graduated. Richard also commissioned the evening before and Richard asked me to give him his commissioning oath. So Frances, Whiskey, and I packed up the jeep and made our way to Stillwater, our old stomping grounds.

Now this trip was monumental for several reasons. 1) Richard and Dan graduated. 2) Richard commissioned. 3) This marked the first time I had taken leave since going active duty and after taking 5 days leave, I still have 52 days left. Woo hoo!

And being thrifty as I am, we decided to complete the entire 12 hour drive in 1 day. Turned out to be not so bad once we got past San Antonio. Oklahoma has been getting rained on for the last 3 weeks and it was beautiful (see picture).

We also decided to purchase a trailer to facilitate our full dity move. Now we have our 6×12 trailer already but needed something larger for all of our household goods so I found a sweet deal in Tyler, Tx which was 4 hours out of our way. Luckily the seller said we could meet them on our way back so I didn’t need to tow it up to Stillwater and then all the way back down to Del Rio.

So we picked up this 8.5′ x 24′ bright red trailer and started on our way. The only item which I failed to think about was that the Jeep didn’t have tow mirrors so I could not for the life of me see around to the back of the trailer. Not cool. So Wal-Mart to the rescue with attachable tow mirrors. Minus a little swaying, the rest of re trip back was uneventful; all 18 hours of it. Yeah that’s not a typo. 18 HOURS on the road.

That’s all I got for this post. Tired of reading yet?