Molly Murphy rides, ahem, writes again!

Hopefully, if you're reading this, you haven't given up on me yet! It's been a busy couple of weeks, finishing things up here in San Antonio and getting ready for the next stage of the big move. So, what's the step of the adventure, you ask? Well, it's shaping up like this: I will be moving off base next Tuesday and driving my car to Dallas where I will drop it at the port to be shipped. A port? In Dallas? Yes, yes, I know. Dallas is land-locked. You would think that it would make more sense for the port to be in say, Houston, being nearer the Gulf and all, but no. They will actually put my car on a truck in the big D, ship it TO Houston, and THEN it will be put on a boat and sent overseas. This is a good example of the kind of idiosyncracy that I just don't even ask about anymore. So, what happens after Dallas? I was originally scheduled to depart for Frankfurt from Dallas later this week, but when I got to the Transportation office, my plane ticket had been totally goofed up...shocking, I know. The headline read something like this: ARMY GOOFS UP TRAVEL PLANS: well there's a first! ANYWAY, when the ladies at the Transportation Dept. finally figured out how to fix it, the only solution that they could come up with was to send me out of Dallas on 28 November..after Thanksgiving. Conveniently enough, M., is also being stationed in Germany, not too far from me. FORTUNATELY, M. is also smah-ter than I am, and he conned me into going on his Turkey Day cross-the-south road trip to Atlanta where he will drop his car off at his folks' house, and then I will fly out with him from Hartsfield after Thanksgiving, instead of Dallas. Now THIS could be quite the adventure! Acutally, it should be a really good time: his whole family will be there, and I have a feeling that if the road trip doesn't kill me, getting teased by his three older brothers might. I'm already getting a hard time from at least one of them, long-distance, so, it should be a lot of fun, and I'm definitely looking forward to having at least one more week in the U.S. before we go.