{"id":191,"date":"2008-07-22T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/07\/homeless.html"},"modified":"2008-07-22T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T03:09:00","slug":"homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/07\/homeless.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SIVPtQmKg3I\/AAAAAAAAS5A\/8b0tX1krOxA\/s1600-h\/TheFinalRoute.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225670581601076082\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SIVPtQmKg3I\/AAAAAAAAS5A\/8b0tX1krOxA\/s400\/TheFinalRoute.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a><br \/>Dave and I finally had a chance to work out the final routing&#8230;follow the pale blue line heading north, then west out of central NC.<\/p>\n<p>We are stopping in Martinsburg, WV, Wright-Patterson AFB (near Dayton, OH), Scott AFB (near St. Louis), before ending our journey at Offutt AFB (near Omaha, NE). We leave this Wednesday and will take a week before we&#8217;re in Omaha on July 30th. But it&#8217;s really only 4 days of driving. We&#8217;re visiting friends and family during the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We moved out of our Apex, NC house and into a local suite hotel on Sunday, and this morning signed the closing papers. So we&#8217;re officially &#8220;homeless&#8221;. We&#8217;re also officially no longer homeowners and for once we don&#8217;t mind one bit!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thewarlicks.blogspot.com\/\">Warlicks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maryanng.blogspot.com\/\">Goldmans<\/a>, Bucklers, Hongs, <a href=\"http:\/\/mandakini97.blogspot.com\/\">Babas<\/a> and Currivans for their wonderful hospitality and comraderie over the past several days. Thanks also to Susan Hagel for making the drive down to Apex this past weekend even though our house was EMPTY! Thanks to the Switzers up the street for letting us use their air mattresses and taking our kitchenette set off our hands. Thanks to the Waterford Woods Bunco Ladies for the restaurant gift cards and for letting me win Bunco for the first time last Thursday night!<\/p>\n<p>The boys have certainly enjoyed their playdates, and Dave and I have enjoyed getting to spend our last days here with our friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>(Did that just sound like we&#8217;re on Death Row or something? Sorry!)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fret! We have our new house in Bellevue, NE ready for us to go into on August 1st, and Dave already arranged for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliedvanlines.com\/\">&#8220;Big Orange Truck&#8221;<\/a> to come by on the 4th to deliver the goods.<\/p>\n<p>Today Dave turned in his office keys and submitted his forwarding address to his department at NCSU and he&#8217;s officially finished there&#8230;last Friday he signed out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seymourjohnson.af.mil\/\">Air Force base<\/a> that manages his paperwork (technically, he was stationed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsu.edu\/\">NC State<\/a>, but there are no base services there). This morning Dave and I took some time to browse options for framing his diploma when he receives it in August.<\/p>\n<p>We have some assorted errands to run before we head out, settling some paperwork at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rlcary.org\/\">church<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bighairsalon.com\/\">getting one last haircut from my hairdresser, Lanie<\/a>, all the while keeping the boys occupied with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevbsplace.org\/\">VBS<\/a> and one last trip to the pool with their friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I finally had a chance to work out the final routing&#8230;follow the pale blue line heading north, then west out of central NC. We are stopping in Martinsburg, WV, Wright-Patterson AFB (near Dayton, OH), Scott AFB (near St. Louis), before ending our journey at Offutt AFB (near Omaha, NE). We leave this Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[622,49,32,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5ycQ0-homeless","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":197,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/07\/greeting-from-belleville-il-1100-miles-into-our-trip.html","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Greeting from Belleville, IL, 1100 miles into our trip&#8230;","date":"29 July 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi!We are staying with friends in Belleville, IL, which is near St. Louis. 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