On June 13th (wed) we picked up our truck and trailer and loaded everything up. Luckily we did it early because it started to rain right after we finished.
We got up early on Thursday and were on the road by 6:40 or so.
Our first day of driving was pretty uneventful, we spent most of the day driving through Montana which SUCKED. There was a ton of road construction so we had to go 35 instead of 70. We were following mapquest direction and they sent us on a back highway instead of I-90 so we thought we were lost. In the end it took us about 15 hours to get from Spokane to Sturgis, SD, but it should have been only 13.
On Friday we were back on the road by 5:40 Spokane time. Driving across South Dakota was pretty uneventful, we were debating stopping by Mt Rushmore but it would have been an hour out of the way just driving, so we decided to skip it. As soon as we crossed the Minnesota border I swear there was life. Everything was green and there were people. We also crossed the headwaters (?) of the Mississippi River which is on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
When we got into Illinois we used the GPS on Dimitri's phone to get us to our hotel because there was road construction on the freeway and we couldn't see our hotel. Day two was another 15 hour drive day, but it went by faster I think because we had scenecry to look at.
On Saturday we slept in a little bit and had breakfast with Dimitri's friend Alex King who works for Boeing in Chicago. After breakfast we hit the road and drove 4.5ish hours to Ann Arbor!! We checked into our apartment around 5 and started to unload the truck. Luckily one of our neighbors, Dan, helped us to unload the truck so it went A LOT faster.
We unpacked all day sunday and then made a Costco run so we had some food to eat. I'll post pictures of the apartment later and pictures of what the roads look like, there are trees everywhere.
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