More Travels

Yesterday we got up at 3am and packed up the truck in order to leave at 4:30.  Our experience has been that if we travel on Sundays, we have less of a chance of being stopped by the police.  Since all of our paperwork isn't completely in order, getting stopped can be a little stressful.  We pray before each trip that God will shut the eyes of the police as we travel.  So far, we have not ever been stopped at  a checkpoint.  The dirt portion of the trip took an especially long time because the tie-downs in the trailer kept working loose from all the bouncing around, so they had to be re-tied numerous times.  I was riding my motorcycle, so I would typically ride for about 5 minutes or so and then stop and wait 10 or 15 minutes for Holly to catch up.  Several times I turned around to backtrack because Holly was taking so long.  She definitely had to drive much slower with the trailer.  We also stopped to help pull a guy out of the mud who had gotten stuck.  Right after we stopped, a guy with an F150 came by and offered to pull him out.  I decided to let him try, since us helping him involved detaching the trailer.  The F150 promptly got stuck in the mud as well, so I ended up having to pull both of them out.  That whole fiasco took an hour, but it was nice to stop and help, and then see their surprise when we told them we didn't want any money.