We departed Canada on Wednesday 2 November, a day later than we had intended to as we had more work done on our car seeing as we were going to have a very long drive. As is ususal for the Wright/White family anything that can go wrong generally does. Ross who has undertaken all of the courses for the handling of small arms decided to take his rifle into the USA. After a 2 hour trip from Fredericton to the boarder we were informed that as Ross was not a Canadian citizen we had to return the rifle home. So after an early start and a four hour round trip back to Fredericton and then returning to the boarder we were finally on our way. The first day we travelled as far as Portland, Maine as we had a very delayed start to our day. There were stilll some fall leaves on the trees so the drive was most pleasant.
The roads are very good to drive on and now the speed limit in most states is between 65 and 75 mph.
Our next stop was Harrisburg, PA, then onto Knoxville,TN.
From Knoxville we traveled to Little Rock,Ak.
and finally arrived in Texas 5 days later having travelled 4,000 km. Texas is really booming and there are "high 5" cloverleaf roadways being built throughout the State.
When we arrived in Dallas we were amazed at the amount of traffic on the road for a Sunday so our trip into San Antonio was much slower then we had expected.
We arrived at our house at 3.30 pm on Sunday 6 November and we were delighted to be finally home. After a quick unpack of the car we were around at Dennis' place and then off to Theresa and Steve's place for a family supper. It was great to be back once again with our Texas family.
More to follow.
Best wishes to all,
Ross and Bev
Great to see the pictures and know that you have made it safely. We did receive the email you sent and are turning thoughts to visit next year. Hopefully we will see you back in Fredericton in the summer.
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