My great-grandfather Hoger was an immigrant from Germany who settled in Chicago. My grandparents moved, when my father was one year old in 1953, from Chicago to the Kansas City suburb of Mission, KS. At that time, there wasn't even a street in front of their brand-new house. He met my mother, who lived in nearby Merriam, in high school.
My dad became a pastor, and the process entailed several moves: junior college in Winfield (KS), senior college in Fort Wayne (IN), seminary in Saint Louis (MO), a vicarage in Charleston (IL). By the time I was born, they were living in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, IL. When I was in third grade, they decided they wanted to be closer to their family, considering that my grandparents were getting older. So my dad asked for a call to the Kansas District, and we ended up in the town of Atwood. Driving from there to KC takes more time than going to O'Hare and flying, but whatever.
After high school, I went to college in the Chicago suburb of River Forest, IL. I slacked off and flunked out, and in the meantime got my girlfriend pregnant. I moved out to the Wheaton and enrolled in community college. My girlfriend and I broke up shortly thereafter, and I went online to find new love. The lady I met online moved up to Naperville (IL) within the year, to be closer to me and make our relationship work.
Four years later, we were married and moved downstate to Herrin. My plan was to continue on to university at Carbondale, but I never did.
When our first baby was born, we decided we wanted to live close to family. My parents had since moved from Atwood to Wichita (KS), so we moved into their basement for the first 1½ years. We've lived in Wichita ever since.
New Lenox, IL → Atwood, KS (1990): I don't remember the route, other than that the end of it was I-70 to K-25
Atwood, KS → River Forest, IL (1999): US-36, K-383, US-183, US-34, NE-44, I-80, I-88, I-290, IL-43
River Forest, IL → Wheaton, IL (2000): public transportation
Wheaton, IL → Herrin, IL (2006): public transportation to Matteson, hitchhiked from there to Johnston City (I-57), then my wife picked me up
Herrin, IL → Wichita, KS (2008): IL-148, I-57, US-60, MO-360, I-44, US-71, MO-96, MO-171, K-171, US-400, K-96