After 10 months of living in Delaware while Nathan finished his degree, Rebekah and Nathan moved all the way across the country so Rebekah could finish her schooling at BYU-Idaho. This required a lot of work: selling all their furniture, packing up all their belongings, cleaning their apartment top to bottom, installing a hitch and cargo rack, having the elders help them lift and install their rooftop carrier, mailing several boxes of books when they proved too much weight for the Toyota Camry to handle, and finally hitting the road. They had carefully planned out their entire trip and stayed with friends and family of friends every step of the way.
All of Rebekah and Nathan's belongings in/on/around their car.
Apparently if you have a plastic bin too close to the exhaust pipe, it will melt. Rebekah and Nathan found this out the hard way, unfortunately. They ended up ditching everything that got ruined (which, thankfully, wasn't too much) and duct taping some weights in the bin's place to balance out the weight on their cargo holder.
They also got to work in several Church history stops, including Nauvoo. Finally they pulled in to Idaho Falls on July 7, exhausted after 13 hours of driving. They stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Scott in their upstairs suite but spent most of the waking hours at our house. It was a blessing being able to have all of us around for a few weeks while Ana was also home between semesters at BYU-Idaho.
Recreating their Nauvoo band days. Apparently the bandwagon doesn't get pulled around Nauvoo any more?!
Ana moved back up to Rexburg on September 9; Rebekah and Nathan moved to Rexburg on October 2. They had hoped to buy a trailer house, but the one they put an offer on ending up having extensive water damage, so they pulled out of that transaction and instead were able to line up an apartment. It's the upper half of a home northwest of campus. Nathan is working as an adjunct faculty member of the music department while Rebekah attends as a student, so it's a blessing they were able to find a home in Rexburg so they didn't have to keep commuting from Grandma and Grandpa's house.