The Adventure Begins

9/17/06--Evening

When the travel bug stopped by our house to give us all a good bite, he bypassed Max entirely. He is the boy who doesn’t like change, who cries when he wears long pants because they touch his legs, and has no interest at all in wearing shoes.

This journey from Marysville, CA to Godfrey, IL should be interesting. We will either learn to put up with screaming or he will learn to tolerate a carseat for more than a half hour at a time.

The first two hours were great. Max was asleep. But when he woke up, he wanted out of his carseat, and that was that. He screamed, he squirmed, he wailed. A quick stop in Fernley, NV allowed us to heat up a bottle and give him a brief reprieve from his carseat. He grudgingly accepted the bottle, and it kept him content for a while, but he ended up screaming again for the final 30 minutes of our drive to Winnemucca.