Chasing Daylight

I hate packing...and I hate moving. I don't mind going to someplace new, I just don't like the act of moving. Of packing everything up, carrying everything out, and then having to carry everything back in, and then having to unpack everything all over again.

The one thing that I really dislike is having to move everything in a moving van. We rented a 26 foot diesel truck and packed it to the brim with all of our junk. Then we hooked a trailer onto it and put my wife's car on it. If you have ever driven a big truck than you will know, but if you haven't then just let me tell you that nothing is simple when you are driving around. You cannot just pull in and get gas. You have to find a station large enough. You just can't find a hotel, you have to find one that is made for trucks or one that is really empty. Then once you are on the road you can't go as fast or move as easy as all the other cars. When we where going through the mountains in West Virginia and were going up a steep incline the truck was going 35 miles an hour. What would have taken us 22 hours in normal vehicles took us closer to 30 hours with that big old truck. I will admit though, that when I dropped it off and was cleaning it out for the last time it was kind of sad.

It is just very nice to be done with all of the driving and unpacking, and to be pretty much moved in and settled. It is also nice to be 20 minutes from the ocean.

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