We left Ohio and took off to the Sleeping Bear Dunes of Michigan.
Trying to get everything packed and ready to go for the first time was a nightmare. I had put a self-imposed deadline on us. I wanted to be on the road by Friday night and at least a few hours closer to our destination. Going through everything, determining what all we wanted and didn’t want to bring and what could fit. All of the packing was happening that Friday, and Hannah was working a full day. We finally got everything together and rushed over to the storage unit because the gate code stops working after 10pm. It was 9:50. Luckily we lived really close and got there with 2 minutes to spare. We get to the camper and notice that we don’t have the key for hitch lock…
Man, it’s not looking good. Now the Storage unit gate code isn’t going to work if we go back home and try to find the key. So Hannah volunteers to stay inside the gate and wait for me to get back because the gate code works from the inside. Aka you can get out just not in. So I leave Hananh there with a knife and bear spray -It’s not the nicest area- and go back home. I’m looking, looking, looking and can’t find it anywhere… Guess where it was? In the back of the truck, buried under a bunch of crap.
So I make it back to Hannah and she has made a friend. Mr pebble. Lol she had found a little rock and was kicking it around. But the funniest part about it was that she ended up straining her neck from looking down for so long. Well, I guess not so funny because her neck hurt for the next month.
But we made it on the road and up near Toledo, which is about 2 hours northeast of Columbus. We found a Walmart parking lot a little past midnight. We set up and got to sleep. Pretty uneventful, but I do remember there being a lot of other semi-trucks with generators going.
