Moving

[Go? Fencing?]

Well, camp is over (the reason that I've hardly been on all summer), and now I have two days to pack up my life. My fiancé and I are moving (back, for him; to, for me) to Arizona, leaving Thursday and making the four-and-a-half day drive in my car. This is my first multi-day drive. I don't expect to enjoy it much, except for the fact that I'll be doing with Elijah. We have our hotels booked, and we're going to make a few mix tapes today or tomorrow.

I'm working on packing, and of course I've hit that wall of don't want to go (even though I don't particularly want to stay- this happened every time I was moving back to college too, but that was only an hour and a half away). So yeah, motivation's not that high right now.

Any moving/packing/road trip tips?

[thereom4]

Edit: OP asked for tips. My original post was useless. Apparently I need glasses. But not really.

Um, tips.....don't drink alot of liquid. Roll your clothing, you fit more in your suitcases.

[JackOfHearts]

Any moving/packing/road trip tips?

Road Trip tip: If there's a restroom available, use it! Don't try to hold it, it'll just be more problematic when a road turns out to be much longer than it looks on the map.

Moving Tip: You're always going to forget something important. Don't fret over it, just make sure someone has a forwarding address.

Good luck! And have fun on the trip.

[TBean]

If time is not 100% of the essence, try and enjoy the trip some. Take an hour or two here and there to enjoy something on the trip you are taking. Give yourself a break at lunch or some other time during the day - eight of of relentless driving is exactly that. Even the best of friends/love-birds are a little sick of one another.

See if along your route there are any interesting places to eat - check out Food Networks "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dive" - I have actually tried a some of those places and they have all been pretty good.

[Mergs]

Did a four day drive in a U-haul from Seattle to Houston with new spouse. Unfortunately, I'm the one that does non-stop trips (limited to 14 hours now that I'm older); trip was not the smoothest, or as enjoyable as it should have been, but there were other complicating factors. And didn't do any of the following. Needless to say, never did that again. At least with that spouse!

Anyway, take the advice (remember what you paid for it, though!) so far that's been given. Take your time if you can and spend time stopping to read the historical markers, detour a bit to some thing interesting, get a variety of interesting tunes, pack interesting gourmet snacks, leave time in the evenings for relaxing (hot tub, etc). but most of all, start early in the day, like before 7 AM. Driving is much easier (less traffic, etc).

Have fun and drive safely!!

[Inquartata]

My fiancé and I are moving (back, for him; to, for me) to Arizona, leaving Thursday and making the four-and-a-half day drive in my car. This is my first multi-day drive. I don't expect to enjoy it much, except for the fact that I'll be doing with Elijah.

Hah, comfort yourself with the realization that you are headed for

"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this Inqland,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.”

[Empty Wallet]

Hah, comfort yourself with the realization that you are headed for

"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this Inqland,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.”

Be afraid..

be very afraid

[oiuyt]

"That Inqland, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!"

[Go? Fencing?]

The first day's drive is over; we're in Pittsburgh.

[JackOfHearts]

PITTSBURGH!!!!!!

...

Is it really the pits, or is that just hearsay? How is the journey so far?

[Inquartata]

"Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor Inqland's private wrongs,
Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face."

[oiuyt]

"Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
These words hereafter thy tormentors be!"

[Inquartata]

"Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
Dared once to touch a dust of Inqland's ground?"

[Go? Fencing?]

Tonight we are in St. Louis, MO. Driving through southern Illinois was very boring, nothing but cornfields.

[JackOfHearts]

Sounds like a decent place for a barbecue, though. Mmmm, corn on the cob.

[oiuyt]

"Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
Dared once to touch a dust of Inqland's ground?"

If I'm not mistaken, by the end of our fine play the possessor of those banish'd and forbidden legs has won the civil war and conquered Inqland....

-B

[Go? Fencing?]

I have changed my location in accordance with this thread.

[Go? Fencing?]

Last night was spent in Oklahoma City, where people have southern accents.

[oiuyt]

I have changed my location in accordance with this thread.

What are you doing in that hand basket?

-B

[Inquartata]

I have changed my location in accordance with this thread.

"Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's
not a better wench in Inqland."