So that is the reason for my lack of updates. Weather has been good for the most part, high 80’s low 90’s but the wind is still coming from the East so we are still covered with dust and now the odor of sewage since they are working on the sewage pipes at the construction site. Joy…
Still no word on if we have to move or not, I spoke to the landlord last week and they was meeting with the home owners today or tomorrow to discus it so I will call Monday or Tuesday if I have not heard from them. He seems to think living on a month to month lease is a great thing. I see it as what happens when we are in Seattle for 10 days and when we get back we have 20 days to pack, find a new place and move.
I estimated it would be $10,000 at least to have a moving company move us to Washington/Oregon and at least $5000 to $8000 to do it ourselves which the idea fills me with dread, but if I have to and that is the only way we can move to where we want to be, then we will do what we will have to do.
The idea is to rent a large Uhaul and tow our truck while Pauline drives a rented RV behind me with the cats. The main reason for this is, it is about 3500 miles from here to Seattle, at 65 MPH at 12 hours that’s about 780 miles which if we could keep up that pace would take us at least 4.5 days to drive it, add all the stops we will be making since Pauline is not the best traveler and with 2 cats who HATE cars it would be best on them and us if we could let them have room to roam and we could also do some small site seeing on the way and not have to worry about finding a hotel with space to park a 26’moving van and trailer like I had the last time when I drove to FL.
The hotel I had booked was too packed to pull in the parking lot so I had to leave it and find another hotel which turned out for the best since it was in a BAD part of Columbia SC. Which really didn’t matter since the cats would not let me get any sleep when we did get a hotel 40 miles later and after 4 hours of laying there I packed back up and hit the road and eventually pulled off into a rest stop and cat napped in a jam packed Uhaul cab with 3 cats a bright sun and crappy A/C.
So the idea of knowing we would have room to chill, a bed, a shower of any sort and a place to eat as well as more room for the cats is a good thing. Of course the RV will cost about $2500 not including gas which I’m sure will push it up over $3500 so we are back at the $10,000 area to move.
Yep, that is a lot of money, but if all goes well, we should be able to pull it off, if not we will of course have to stay here until we do. If that isn’t motivation then I don’t know what is.
I’ve never been one to “settle down†and it does bother me that I never seem “happy†with where I live, but I am hoping that as I grow older I will feel more comfortable with where I am and actually get a social life, maybe that is the secret?
