A dangerous trip, but getting better

May 15, 2007

An update on our move to the southwest,

We travelled north to Southbend Indiana to visit mom for two nights, and

while we were there, something in her house made everyone sick with lung

congestion. Carmella and Danella got hit the worst, Little Dan and I have felt

some effect and a scratchy throat. I smoke and attribute that to the fact that

the hits don't hit me as hard.

Sunday morning we travelled south west to Granite City, ILL to visit grandma

and spent a night there, her house was clean. Yesterday we travelled into

Missouri, or should I say Misery, (Carmella remembers now why she nick named it

Misery). We have family there and every house we went in to had mold, stopped

at a gas station to use the rest room and it had mold, not to mention the

pollens in the air we so thick, by the time we made it to Columbia, Carmella

looked like death warmed over. We boondocked in a hotel parking lot to use

their WiFi to get on line and check things out, and decided to move in for the

night, but not without checking the rooms first. When we left our house in

Shelbyville at 3:30 in the morning, we were so tired we stayed at a Days Inn

that was so full of mold that despite the fact that we were working on 3 hours

of sleep the night before, we could not sleep in the room so we checked out in

less than four hours. now we check rooms before moving in. The Super 8 east of

Columia is the cleanest place we've been since leaving Indiana.

I just want everyone to know, we all keep putting off moving into the

unknown because it is scary. what will we do when we get there? Where will we

find a job? Will our vehicle make the trip? Let me say this. The trip into the

unknown is not as scary as moving from one moldy house to another and watching

your children and family being tortured by an unseeable demon. We now have

195000 miles on our van and still moving forward with more than 1000 Lbs of

cargo and a family of 5. (We are pulling a wheelie across the country)

Thank you all for your prayers,

Dan & Carmella Dunkin

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