With our original planned departure date of Tuesday, my parents weren't going to be able to make it up from Massachusetts to see me and the house. But, with our one day delay, things changed, and they were able to make it today, so we decided to hang out in Merrimack for another day. While Mrs. Keay made us breakfast, she mentioned that she had heard a loud bang yesterday, and saw a puff of smoke come from near the truck. After breakfast, I went to investigate. My first g

I woke up this morning around 7AM, and Isagani and I contemplated the best way to bring down the weight of the truck and trailer. We decided to go for the low hanging fruit, which was the steel doors from the back of the truck (~300 lbs), the spare truck tire (~100 lbs), and the set of snow tires for the Kia (~150 lbs). It sounds easy, and the tires were, as they were stored in the back of the Kia. The doors, however, were stored under the front of the Kia. In order to ge

After our 3 hour detour, courtesy of the Maine State Police, we were back on the road, and legal, at least in Maine, we think... This being the first long trip with the house and truck, I thought it would be a good idea to stop fairly frequently along the way to check everything. We traveled about 25 miles south on I-95 to the Newport exit to get fuel at the truck stop there. As I pulled through the truck fueling station and got out, a trucker came over and told me that it