And it took forever.
Who knew leaving family and friends behind would be so very difficult (ha ha), even if it's only for a year.
So here's the way it began...
Since our ride to start flaked on us, I arranged an alternate means of transportation (and I get to do my family a favor.) However, this puts us in a 10 foot U-Haul heading North. Not ideal but a start none the less (and FREE! we just have to focus on the road for 12 hours rather than sitting back in a Greyhound reading). Saying good bye to my family was not as hard as I expected it to be, but it was certainly snarky-er and I was really expecting some snark (Gregory interjects by saying negativity.) Saying good bye to Gregory's family was certainly nicer but a lot more involved (stop after stop after stop.)
As we spiraled out of the Dallas Gravity Well, and it tried desperately to suck us back in (original ETD was 10am), we finally broke free at 19:27. At one point in the early evening we almost gave in to the pull and considered staying another night, but Gregory was adamant that we at least leave the confines of the city suburbs to say we have BEGUN the one year Adventure. About an hour later, after we determined we were out of Dallas, we saw a brightly lit Christmas display on the West side of the road (in Grayson County we later discovered.) We both really wanted to stop and we both felt the overly strong desire to create distance from the DGW (for fear that it might still be able to drag us back in.) We let the Christmas lights win as a signal that we really are on our way, doing what we want, when we want.
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