The Chens live in Chicago, Illinois, but the Moving Wall, he said, is based in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. “I spend most of my time up in the Upper Peninsula, working on the Wall, working on the trailer, working on the truck,” he said. “It’s a lot of fun, and it’s rewarding. I miss my kids and grandkids, but my kids are still like, ‘I can’t believe, Dad, you’re driving the Wall.’ And my wife and I are like only the seventh couple ever to drive it in 33 years. When we were asked, I jumped at it.”
The Wall’s visit to Westminster would be the final stop of this year.
The Wall the Chens drove to Oconee County is called the C Wall. “We have one more identical to this, in North Carolina right now,” he said. “That’s the A wall. And Aaron and Lisa Gray have that one and are doing the same thing I’m doing now. On Monday, we pack up, and Tuesday we both start going north. And we’ll probably get there almost about the same time, to put both walls away for the winter, to get away from it for a little while, and then we’ve got to start working on it to get it ready for April and then hit the road again in April.”