A Future Road Trip

This time I'm heading straight east. And I'm going with my daughter. To make a vehicle switch. With her soon-to-be ex-husband.

Yep, it's the first of my kids to go through a divorce. And she was the last one married. Oh well, he was a "back east"er. We're all "west coast"ers and there really is a difference. If he had wanted to become a "west coast"er it may have worked, but ultimately that was what split them up - geography.

He left to move back to Cincinnati in September with plans for Rach to meet him in the spring. He felt an overwhelming draw to go back because his grandmother who raised him was ill and he felt the obligation to be there for her. Once back there and settled back in his old world I guess he realized she Rach wouldn't fit in. Maybe he realized that she wouldn't be happy away from her whole family. Whatever it was, he told her not to plan to go out there.

But everything is amicable. The biggest problem is that he took her car and left his here. She has a nice, comfy Tahoe and he has a Jeep. Thus the swap.

So this spring she'll rent a small trailer and put things in it that she doesn't want to keep, to give them to Tony. We'll hook it to his Jeep and head off for a halfway point. We get all the fun part, the mountains. But we're gonna make it a little mini vacation - ROAD TRIP!!

I'm sure she'll have some emotional moments, I'll try to distract her. She's actually been doing pretty good. She's looking at the positive. He's letting her keep all the household goods (but she's taking him the things that he especially liked, hence the trailer) which were all purchased in the last couple of years. Most of them are things she picked out. She has a nice car. She has a decent income. She has a large close-knit family who are there for each other.

Of course, there are things that she doesn't have, she'll have lonely times. But that's what family is for. She won't be living far away and weekends are usually spent together. Kevin is moving closer by as well.

I hope this is also the last of my kids to divorce. Only time will tell.