In April, 1985 I graduated from BYU. I had a degree in History
and was itching to get to graduate school and pursue a PhD. After many twists
and turns along the way, I was accepted to the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. It took a while to get all the move plans set, but in the summer
of 1985 we hopped in our nine passenger Chevy Impala station wagon, which we
bought for $500, and made our way east.
A nine passenger station wagon with Andrew, Karen, and me. We
did have the car packed full with the stuff we felt we needed for that long
trip is a young baby. Everything else we owned was in part of a larger truck
that was slowly making its way to Chapel Hill. We had to get there before the
truck and find a place or we would have to pay extra.
