Pack it up let's GO!

Finally the months, then weeks, then days drew near and we could start packing. I had edited The List so many times that I packed from memory (which is why I forgot a pillow) and didn’t even use it until later in the trip to help figure out where something was. When your packing list refers to a subsection within the same list, things are getting out of hand. The pile in the garage grew pretty large, so I took the back seat out of the Tacoma and added a roof rack, but the pile just kept growing to fit.
The teleconferences with Steve (who was working in Las Vegas at the time) grew longer and more frequent until FINALLY at 7:30a on 5/4/07, I reset the odometer to 0000 and left the family waving in the driveway.