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05/02/2018 at 16:06 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
05/02/2018 at 16:06 • Filed to: None | 9
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At the beginning of this week, my wife and I successfully moved from Madison, WI to Rockville, MD. We split the drive over a couple days and spent the night near Cleveland.
The original plan was to pick up the U-Haul on Saturday, have movers load it on Sunday, leave our old house by noon, stop at U-Haul again to put my wife’s car on the trailer and connect it to the truck, then hit the road.
Moving plans never go quite according to plan, so on Saturday thanks to no availability in Madison, a friend gave me a ride to Janesville, 45 minutes away, to pick up the truck, from a tire store that also does U-Haul stuff. Then I drove the truck to the actual Janesville U-Haul store, picked up the trailer, dropped it at the Madison U-Haul store, and parked the truck at my old house.
On Sunday, we woke up at 6:30, and our movers came at 8 to load the truck, but we seriously underestimated the amount of time it would take to load everything. It was 2:45 pm by the time we got on the road heading east with the trailer. We got to the La Quinta Cleveland Airport West in North Olmsted, OH around 12:30 am Sunday.
But in my sleep deprived state, I started pulling up towards the canopy in front of the hotel before realizing the clearance was too low for the truck. And I couldn’t figure out how to back it up right. And we had our cats in the cab with us. So we left it right there, checked in, got the cats in the room, and a security guard and front desk employee helped act as spotters to get the damn truck and trailer backed up and parked in the spot you see above. I got to sleep at 1:30 am.
On Monday, we woke up way before our alarm and couldn’t get back to sleep. It was maybe 5 am or something. La Quinta doesn’t charge a pet fee and there were many pet owners with their dogs barking. La Quinta also provides these big long plastic sticks with loops on the end to poke your cat out from under the bed. This was necessary, because...
The cat poking stick only worked to extract one of the 3 cats. We had to upend the bed to get the other two. But we did! We got on the road towards Maryland at about 8:45 am. We arrived at the U-Haul store in Rockville at 3:45 pm to get the car off the trailer and turn in the trailer, then drove over to our new house, where we met the realtor to get in, and movers to unload the truck.
We put the cats in the guest room and opened up the carriers. Oliver, the male Siamese, had his own carrier, and Sophia and Jade, the two black & whites, had been in a big carrier together. They didn’t leave their carrier at all, and Oliver crammed in there with them.
I *could* have returned the truck at that point, but I had arranged with someone in Rockville on Craigslist to buy a couch on Tuesday. The truck wasn’t due back until today, Wed 5/2, so I figured I’d keep the truck to move the couch. Except the truck is too big to leave parked on our street.
Thankfully, my parents’ driveway is long enough for the thing, and they live 3 miles away, and my car had been in their garage for the past couple weeks since I drove it out to Maryland and flew back to Madison to pack.
So yesterday evening, a friend of mine drove his car to my house, we drove my car to my parents’, got in the U-Haul, got the couch from the Craigslist guy, drove it to my house, unloaded it, then caravaned the U-Haul and my friend’s car to U-Haul, returned the truck, and then I bought my friend dinner and he gave me a ride to my parents where I then drove my car back to my house.
I’ve got basically a whole living room setup with TV, stereo, couch, etc, and our master bedroom is good to go. We’re slowly unpacking and shopping for all the random stuff you end up needing after a cross country move.
Oh, and it’s like 85 degrees here in Maryland. Good thing our AC is efficient.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Textured Soy Protein
05/02/2018 at 16:21 |
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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> Textured Soy Protein
05/02/2018 at 16:22 |
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Congrats on the successful move!
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> Textured Soy Protein
05/02/2018 at 16:25 |
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I travel with my doggo frequently and La Quenta is where I always stay, most pet friendly chain I know of. Most of them have dog treats on the front desk.
shop-teacher
> Textured Soy Protein
05/02/2018 at 16:28 |
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Successful operation doctor!
That was a lot of moving parts, but you made it work. Thanks again for the fog lights :)
user314
> Textured Soy Protein
05/02/2018 at 16:44 |
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“So. Much. Hate.”
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> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/02/2018 at 16:44 |
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The only part of Cleveland I saw was the mall across the street from our hotel.
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> user314
05/02/2018 at 16:45 |
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The funny thing is that one is the one who was most chill about being in an unfamiliar hotel room, and the only one who we successfully extracted from under the bed with the La Quinta cat extraction tool.
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> shop-teacher
05/04/2018 at 09:30 |
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Glad they made it to you! I brought them and an old Nexus 7 2012 that I had sold on Swappa to the post office to ship out. I had packed both items in identical reused Amazon boxes, and even though I marked which box was which, I kept feeling paranoid that you’d end up with the tablet and the Swappa buyer would end up with the fog lights and be like WTF THIS IS NOT A NEXUS 7!
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shop-teacher
> Textured Soy Protein
05/04/2018 at 09:47 |
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Hahaha! That would have been quite the score for me ;)