The moving process continued

I (Traci) am in California and finally have access to the internet so I can write more. We are on our yearly trip to visit family in Texas and California. The girls and I are at my parent's house in Sacramento after spending three weeks with Bryan's family in Texas. Bryan is back to Alaska now. He and his dad drove from Texas to Anchorage last week. It took them 6 1/2 days to drive over 4,000 miles with a large trailer filled with furniture and other posessions that we have been storing in Texas. The trip was uneventful except for a close call with a semi that crossed into their lane on a 2-lane road. Bryan and his dad were both shaken up from that experience, and Bryan said that he felt as if his hands were guided by Someone else since he was able to swerve off and back on without loosing the trailer and going into the ditch. Thank God for His protection! Bryan hasn't checked the full extent of the damage to the contents of the trailer, but he did notice that one of our large paintings was popped out of the frame.

In continuation of the river/Fairbanks trip...
The man who owns the barge in Fort Yukon didn't get the barge into the river until about 9 o'clock Sunday night, though he had promised Bryan it would be 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Bryan and three friends loaded the barge until 2 in the morning.
They had agreed with the barge driver that they would meet at 7:30 and leave at 8. He finally showed up and they got on the river at 10:30 am. Bryan started out driving behind the barge, and followed him for about two hours. In those two hours they drove about 24 miles upriver. They were going so slow that Bryan had used up half of his gas and was concerned that his motor would burn up. He finally passed the barge and continued on his own.
They (Bryan and the two friends riding with him) made it to Circle at 6 pm. Our helpers from First Assembly in Fairbanks had arrived in Circle at 12:30 that afternoon and were wondering what was happening. They called me from Circle just before 6 and asked me if I had heard from Bryan. I thought they would be half way back to Fairbanks by that time, so that got me concerned. Fortunately, Bryan showed up while I was on the phone. They didn't know how far the barge was behind them.
The barge finally pulled into Circle at 10:00 that night. The owner's son and a friend were driving his boat behind the barge so that they wouldn't have to take the barge back to Fort Yukon that night. The smaller boat had run out of gas and messed up their engine because they followed the barge all the way.
With all of the help, it didn't take long to unload the barge onto the trailers. When Bryan went to pay the barge owner, the guy told him that it would be $200 more than they had agreed upon since it took him all day! Bryan was really upset about that, but tired enough that he just paid him and walked away.
On the road trip into Fairbanks, the truck Bryan was riding in and pulling the trailer with lost it's brakes. They were driving in the mountains on a dirt road with no guard rails and steep drops in areas. He said he was praying pretty hard, and they made it down and into town. Bryan finally arrived at the house we were staying at in Fairbanks at 2:30 am. Needless to say, he was pretty exhausted.


As of right now, I have not been contacted by any principals about teaching jobs. The school district I am applying to is closed for the month of July, so it looks like I won't hear anything until August. School starts August 22nd. Until I get a job, we will be living in an apartment that the college owns. We won't try to buy a house until I have a job.