RV Adventure: Night 1

INTRO: My name is Mikaela Steele, and I am thirteen years old. We’ve just got a new RV and planned a two week journey as soon as school was out. So I am writing a journal about the journey. Each day we will be somewhere new. We will always be doing something else. I cannot wait.
Night 1: First things first, I put ‘Night 1’ because we left on a Thursday night after our Community night. So that is why I put night instead of day. This entry will be different than some of the other ones as well, I am writing in the morning instead of the previous night. We started at 7:47 pm on Thursday, May 28, 2009. At first it took a while for Josh and Dan to settle down. But eventually they fell asleep. As we were driving through the Anthony gap I started falling asleep as well, so I told Jon that I was going to go to bed. But then I smelled something funny, I went to the back and smelled… smelled… GAS!! Mom went to the back to check it out, it turned out that it was the smell of exhaust, so we closed the windows. Then I went to bed hoping when I woke up it would be gone. I don’t remember the dream I dreamed because as soon as you wake up you don’t remember it very well. When I woke up it was 12:03 am. The moon was beautiful! It was a half moon that looked like a sticker that was just stuck there in the sky. Also, the gas smell was gone as well. I talked to Mom and Dad for about an hour, during that hour we found a beautiful picture. I’m going to describe it to you because we couldn’t find a camera fast enough. The night road went off into the hills but the gorgeous half moon was just above the left side of the road so it looked like you were driving into the night sky. After that we stopped at a gas station to go to the restroom. Then Jonathan, Daniel, Joshua, and I moved around some more. Daniel, Jon, and I went to the restroom. Joshua just stood up like a zombie and went to the back of the RV and collapsed. Soon after that we came to a truck stop and hooked the RV up to charge and we went to sleep.