The day after my marriage was also a very big day, for Susan and I planned on packing up all her stuff in Troy into the parked truck and planned on leaving that night to stop somewhere in Ohio that night.

In the morning, our hotel was a wreck from all the gathering and getting ready that all the bridesmaids needed to get done the previous day. Susan and I dreaded cleaning all this up, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

We did kind of get freaked out from this noise that sounded like someone was breaking into our hotel though. It sounded like someone was opening and closing our door. It was extremely loud and you could tell it was happening in the next room. After getting up a few times investigating, I found that it was the wind that was opening up our balcony door and pushing it inward to make that noise.

Susan and I then ordered our first meal as husband and wife and it was a delicious eggs Benedict.

Later it took a few hours to pack up all our belongings into my brother and fathers cars and then around 11AM a ton of close family members met up at our hotel and we all hung out in the living room for a while. While getting my stuff ready, one of my tasks was to grab some stuff from Linda's office that was supposed to be things that they gathered during cleanup. I grabbed the only wedding boxes I could see and luckily Susan's mom followed me there, because I accidentally grabbed wedding stuff for the Saturday night wedding.

As we left the Inn at St. Johns, Kate gave me the "I'll be watching you eyes" pointing at her eyes and then me, indicating that I take good care of her sister.

We got to Susan's house and unloaded the stuff from the cars and had a quick little opening of the presents party immediately following we loaded up the truck and packed a 26 foot truck to pretty much capacity with both our crap from both households.

As my parents began leaving, this is when all the emotions began to run wild as my mom was upset that I was never coming home to live with her again.

Susan's side as well, when we were coming to the moments before leaving for Florida, were very emotional for everyone.

But eventually I started up the truck and we were off! My father in law took a video of us and our "Just married" sign as we drove away.

Emotions again ran wild with both of us knowing that we were leaving Detroit for a new place. We will be back eventually, unless we cant imagine living in the cold ever again, but leaving your area you grew up in for 25 years is not that easy. I have so many close friends and family that are only a short distance drive to hang out with. It was so bittersweet as well as emotional because our wedding was over with and it went by so fast.

Susan and I ate at Taco Bell that night and had planned on making it to the very south of Ohio, but when we gassed up for the first time about 2 gallons of red liquid dumped onto the ground. A few good Samaritans helped decipher the problem and explained that it was the anti freeze and that I wont make it very much farther, so Susan and I stayed up in the Holiday Inn and it was quite nice.

I called SOS for Penske and Susan and I relaxed while we looked at the 1000 photos that the photographer took and really enjoyed them as we fell asleep. I was awoken by the truck dude who filled up my antifreeze but couldn't figure out the problem because it was dark.

We drove all day and had a lot of fun doing it, until we got to Tennessee and the truck broke down on the side of the road as soon as we hit the mountains from Overheating. I tried to fill it up with some Antifreeze but and continued driving but it failed again. On the phone with SOS again, I was glad I had my GPS unit because it was able to give precise location of our truck, without it I had no clue what part of Tennessee I was in.

This threw us off on our schedule a lot and we barely made it to Chattanooga to our free hotel stay with my Marriott points. We had an excellent meal-to-go at Shoney's and ate it in our room and caught the very end of the Super bowl and passed out.

Nothing really interesting happened all day through Georgia except that at some point our Just Married sign flew off the truck. That sign was hilarious because you just don't see things like that on the road and many people waved and honked at the new married couple.

We got very excited as we entered into Florida and had some orange juice as we picked up brochures for all the potential places to visit in this tourism centered state.

Florida was a very long haul from here and we didn't have time to pick up my car at my friends house that night because Shawn our realator had to work at 9:30.

As we entered into the new condo complex there were about 4 cars behind me and there was a gate that you had to pass, so Susan quickly suggested to go into the side corner where you would waive your pass. This deemed a very bad decision because essentially I was stuck inside this thing! I was really nervous about this, but luckily the pass unit had some metal poles to guard it from being taken out of commission by my truck. I bent some bushes and made some rubber marks on the curb from riding on the side walk, but eventually I made it out!

We got into our place and Shawn hooked us up with a place to stay for the night so we didn't have to unload the truck for our bed that night.

We made it across country into our new place! It is beautiful and you all will have to use it as a vacation home with full hotel amenities. Susan and I keep saying how we are shocked that we live here because it is more of a hotel than anything.