by Hope
Today my Sea Cadet graduates from his “boot camp” in Pennsylvania. The old me would have driven up the night before, gotten a hotel room…etc. The new me, well, I got up at 3:30am this morning, got dressed, got kids in the car and hit the road. Giving myself 30 extra minutes to get there based on estimated drive time.
I am planning on lunch out before we head back, because I know he’s going to have lots to tell and I want to focus on him rather than on driving before we start the 5 1/2 hour drive home.
11 hours of drive time today with a short break for his graduation and lunch, but no hotel or extra meal costs. Yahoo for the small wins, especially making hard choices for this debt payoff journey!
Wrote this earlier this week, but by the time this publishes we’ll have been on the road for almost two hours. Please send thoughts and prayers for safe travels today.
Hope is a creative, solutions-focused business manager helping clients grow their business and work more efficiently by leveraging expertise in project management, digital marketing, & tech solutions. She’s recently become an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive kids have spread their wings. She lives with her 3 dogs in a small town in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the beaches any day. She struggles with the travel bug and is doing her best to help each of her kids as their finish schooling and become independent (but it’s hard!) She has run her own consulting company for almost twenty years! Hope began sharing her journey with the BAD community in the Spring of 2015 and feels like she has finally in a place to really focus on making wise financial decisions.
Having done this myself from Maryland to Connecticut to drive the son #2 to his college dorm I can totally relate. Now that this stage is in our rear-view mirror I am happy to say it was worth it. Congrats to the Sea Cadet…a new stage for you and him is also in store. I am grateful for his service to our country…the whole reason everyone gets to speak their mind on blogs such as this…Not sure if you have the ability to read this on the road, but safe travels.
Congrats to the Sea Cadet, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that if you feel yourself getting tired, please stop the car.
Hope you had a safe trip. I drove for about 9 hours yesterday too. I stopped a few times so, it wasn’t so bad.
Hi Hope, I hope you had a safe trip.
Great job Hope! Now that’s sacrifice 🙂