Time off the road (6/8 – 6/18)

For the past 9 days, we have been staying in Kelly & Chuck’s house in Richardson, TX while the Escape Trailer & Car sit in the street in front of their house. I am really glad that the width of the trailer is the same as that of the car. While the trailer looks bigger due to the height, the cars and trucks passing in front of the house have not had a problem with where we are parked. If anything, I would say that the trailer parked out front tends to be a “traffic calming device” like a traffic circle or speed bumps. Since arriving, we have been spending lots of time with Kelly, Chuck and “the boys.” (Nate & Sam) Due to the high temperatures here, we normally have the boys at the park by 8 AM every day. After that, you tend to really cook. We’ve gotten to go with Nate to his swimming lessons, and have made the normal Target, Sprouts, and IKEA runs. After 35 days living in the Escape on the move, it has been refreshing with no place that we had to be! We also got to celebrate Father’s Day, my birthday, Sam’s birthday (with a pool party). Also, time to catch up on events with access to Wi-Fi. One thing that has been hanging over me is the lack of a place to park the trailer when we get back to WNC. Well, that is now solved. We found a storage area in Mills River that has openings and is just off of Airport Road. That will be convenient as we will normally be passing right by going to and from the interstate. Another surprise was that we now have license plates on the trailer. The company that financed the trailer sent a check to North Carolina to cover the sales tax for the trailer once they had received the papers from Homeland Security showing the exportation of the trailer. Kind of a nice surprise that we don’t have to go to the tag office! I feel fortunate that we were never pulled over in the 5 weeks and 5,200 miles of towing without a plate. Between the fact that we were not speeding and also “looked like Canadians” with a Canadian Maple Leaf on the back of the trailer, I guess we weren’t a target.