Moving
Google maps says that I can get from Seattle to Bradenton in about 2 days!
3193 miles, 1 day 22 hours, that's 85 miles per hour, nonstop! Go Google! And what's with traversing South Dakota while looking askance at Nebraska?!? Does this route skirt the really steep parts of the Rockies? Can I visit The Farm while I'm in Tennessee and help birth some natural babies? If I pay extra can I skip Missouri? Oooh, can I cross the country by only going through blue states? (Hmm, only if Canada counts. Which, really, it does.)
So let's say it's 6 days, 10 with a heavy load. I have lots of good furniture, a car, a dog, little patience, and good credit. Options?
1. U-Haul or Budget will rent me a truck and an auto trailer for about $2000. Then I'd hire muscles to load and unload, pay for fuel/food/lodging on the road, and spend about 10 days driving. Which, in my family, means Mom and a kitchen timer come too.
2. The next option up is to pay for space on a commercial truck, which is probably about $3500. This saves me driving and fuel, travel costs, and a lot of time. I'd still hire load/unload muscles. I can have my car moved on a car trailer for about $650 - I think that's going to be cheaper than driving myself, all things considered.
3. The cush option, where I write a check and everything happens by magic, boxes are filled, armoires are disabused of their drawers, burly former NFL players carry it all out the door while I do my nails, then it all happens in reverse at the destination? That's about $10k.
I figured out a few things for sure while I was looking all this up.
A.) I'm not driving Clifford across country. I mean, look at him. This dog is a princess. Princesses fly. First class, preferably. Warm cookie? Oh yes, that would make him verrrrry happy.
B.) I'm not selling my furniture, not any of the good stuff. It's pretty much all I have to show for 15 soul-sucking years in software. It's lovely, useful, easy to clean, and dog-compatible. At one point in my life it was completely reasonable to buy a $6000 dining room set, and in all honesty, my ego can't handle selling it for $600. Plus if I buy that insanely cute Bradenton house, there will be no Ikea products allowed in it. Not even those big neato shelves.
C.) I am seriously considering getting all my stuff moved early, say, in April, and storing it in Florida until I show up in late July. That way it's done, gone, not to be worried about until I'm back from Rwanda or Cuba or Bolivia or wherever I decide to spend the last significant chunk of free time I'll have until I'm over 50.
Practical as it may be to research moving costs and efforts now, I still have some major issues between me and moving:
1. Bradenton or Fort Lauderdale? And then...
2. What exact building am I moving into?
Meanwhile, how about this for $139k, down the street from the other one in Bradenton. Built in 1939, 1 bed/1 bath, 7500 sf lot. Brick & central air, that's how to do it.
3193 miles, 1 day 22 hours, that's 85 miles per hour, nonstop! Go Google! And what's with traversing South Dakota while looking askance at Nebraska?!? Does this route skirt the really steep parts of the Rockies? Can I visit The Farm while I'm in Tennessee and help birth some natural babies? If I pay extra can I skip Missouri? Oooh, can I cross the country by only going through blue states? (Hmm, only if Canada counts. Which, really, it does.)
So let's say it's 6 days, 10 with a heavy load. I have lots of good furniture, a car, a dog, little patience, and good credit. Options?
1. U-Haul or Budget will rent me a truck and an auto trailer for about $2000. Then I'd hire muscles to load and unload, pay for fuel/food/lodging on the road, and spend about 10 days driving. Which, in my family, means Mom and a kitchen timer come too.
2. The next option up is to pay for space on a commercial truck, which is probably about $3500. This saves me driving and fuel, travel costs, and a lot of time. I'd still hire load/unload muscles. I can have my car moved on a car trailer for about $650 - I think that's going to be cheaper than driving myself, all things considered.
3. The cush option, where I write a check and everything happens by magic, boxes are filled, armoires are disabused of their drawers, burly former NFL players carry it all out the door while I do my nails, then it all happens in reverse at the destination? That's about $10k.
I figured out a few things for sure while I was looking all this up.
A.) I'm not driving Clifford across country. I mean, look at him. This dog is a princess. Princesses fly. First class, preferably. Warm cookie? Oh yes, that would make him verrrrry happy.B.) I'm not selling my furniture, not any of the good stuff. It's pretty much all I have to show for 15 soul-sucking years in software. It's lovely, useful, easy to clean, and dog-compatible. At one point in my life it was completely reasonable to buy a $6000 dining room set, and in all honesty, my ego can't handle selling it for $600. Plus if I buy that insanely cute Bradenton house, there will be no Ikea products allowed in it. Not even those big neato shelves.
C.) I am seriously considering getting all my stuff moved early, say, in April, and storing it in Florida until I show up in late July. That way it's done, gone, not to be worried about until I'm back from Rwanda or Cuba or Bolivia or wherever I decide to spend the last significant chunk of free time I'll have until I'm over 50.
Practical as it may be to research moving costs and efforts now, I still have some major issues between me and moving:
1. Bradenton or Fort Lauderdale? And then...
2. What exact building am I moving into?
Meanwhile, how about this for $139k, down the street from the other one in Bradenton. Built in 1939, 1 bed/1 bath, 7500 sf lot. Brick & central air, that's how to do it.
posted by Cy at 9:25 PM
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Click terrain view in Google Maps to see the hypoxia risk of the route. Drag the route through Boise to reduce automotive wheezing.
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