Travelling

Well we are starting our trek west. We left Milwaukee wi this am and are hoping to be in Portland Oregon by sat sometime. It is -5 f here this am so we are so excited about above freezing temps in Oregon. Children are both sleeping right now . Pray for safe travels and patient children :)  
  for some of you asking. I am not working right now as it was just too stressful for the children and trying to keep up with my other responsibilities.
   We are ready to be back in our camper after 2 weeks of living in a hotel room.

Day 2 it is 6 am we are ready to head out again. Yesterday it just kept getting colder by the end of the day it was -13 f . We went past the bad lands and mt  Rushmore in the dark. I so would have lived to have seen these places. Maybe next time ( he he)   children did relatively well travelling. We travelled till 10 30 pm to the s Dakota /Wyoming line and got a hotel instead trying to warm up the camper in these sub zero tempos and arriana  was running a fever so we thought we best get a warm place to get some sleep. Day 3 it was another day on the road. Ariana running a high fever , she was hardly eating anything and refusing her bottle which for her menas she is not feeling well. shes always begging for food and her fever didn't help. shes cutting her top 2 teeth through . its just tough work. we hit a record low of minus 30 c ( talk about brutal coldnesss where it hurts to breathe cause the air freezes in your lungs. thankfully the roads were clear, we did not hit any snow on the roads till our drive from Spokane Washington to Portland Washington where snow storms are unusual. guess we just culdnt resist but to bring the cold with us. Austin was sick one day too. he never gets car sick so im not sure what happened if it was the mountain curvy road in the dark or what. I was wore out till we got to our destination. we had one icy snowy mess in Portland. the city was in shut down mode the first 2 days. the drive from Spokane to Portland should have only been 6 hrs but it took us close to 10. we hit bad roads and lots of snow but we kept telling ourselves were almost there.we got stuck in a gas station parking lot and had to use chains to get out. every body else was chaining up on the road but we didn't actually use ours for driving.praise the lord for safe travels.