Time to pack up and fill a U-haul.

[Darrin]

Tina, Patrick and I are out of this God forsaken hole.

The next door neighbor is buying the house so he can triple his land size and we've both already transfered our jobs to Utah. I've got a buyer for both the truck and the Blazer and we're putting Tina's Neon on a trailer.

So if I seem to drop off the face of the planet for a while, now you know why. I'll see you all when I get the computer back set up and running. I won't be taking it down until probably Thursday or Friday.

[Feek]

Good luck with the move, does that mean you'll be in a decent sized town?

Post zip codes of where you are and where you're going so we can see the difference on Google Earth!

[Darrin]

http://www.boomspeed.com/bofh1968/boatdrinks/myhouse.kmz

That's where we are currently.

We're moving to the Spanish Fork, Utah area. 84660 is the Zip Code.

[Mark]

Does this also mean you'll now have sensible weather?

PS - Agree with Feek about the Zip codes (though I've already got the old one). :)

[Feek]

That's a long way! Funnily enough, when I looked at a map of the USA earlier this year wondering where I'd like to live, I came up with Utah as an answer.

Are you going to have a reasonable amount of land there, Darrin?

[Darrin]

Sensible weather? I certainly hope so!! It's high desert, so even if it gets hot or cold, it will be bearable due to the low humidity.

As for land/acreage? Not a snowball's chance. We'll be looking at yards the size of what Piggy & Lopez have. Certainly won't have the 10 acres we have here. But maybe that's a good thing, seeing as there's 6 or 7 acres of my property we've never set foot on...

[Justsomebloke]

Best of Luck with the move mate :)

[lostkat]

Wow, that's a hell of a long way!! How long has this been on the cards? Looks like you're going to be near quite a big mountain range when you move. Cool!!! :) Good luck with everything.

[Nutcase]

Best of luck with the move :)

See you on the other side!

[Robert]

How come you're having to move?

[leowyatt]

Safe trip and we look forward to seeing you on the other side :)

[Tak]

Big move - good luck and hope it goes smoothly/safely

[Piggymon]

Good luck with the move ! Get back online soon :)

[Wossi]

Good luck, not going to far then, only 1400 miles :shocked:

[Snuggle Ferret]

Good luck to you all :-)

[Desmo]

Hope the move all goes great matey :D

[Roberta]

Good luck!

[Haly]

Good luck with the move :)

[Kell_ee001]

Good luck! :D I can't open the link here at work though - how far is the move? :huh:

[Jonny69]

Good luck with the move matey!

[Wossi]

Good luck! :D I can't open the link here at work though - how far is the move? :huh:

Roughly 1,400 miles. Just down the road :D

[Davey_Pitch]

Best of luck with it Darrin, hope it all goes well :)

[Darrin]

Well, we're in Utah. Still need to get checked into the apartment and move the bare necessities in, but we survived the drive.

I'll try to get a picture of the behemoth we crammed all our stuff into. 26 foot U-haul truck with a tow dolly on the back dragging Tina's Neon with the cats in it. It was a bit of a challenge to navigate that thing around parking lots, let me tell you!!

Anyways, must go take care of more details. I'll talk again soon when it's not from a hotel room on Tina's laptop...

[leowyatt]

Glad to hear the move went well. I know alot of people were asking what happened to the cats :)

[Pebs]

Great to hear from you fella! Hope you get all settled in soon, must be a big relief to have arrived safe and sound :)

[Haly]

Glad to hear things are going well, hope the unpacking goes smoothly :D

[Wossi]

Glad you are almost there. Hope it's not a Motel 6. The last one I stayed in I think there was a triple murder in there :(

[Feek]

Good to see you back and how was the drive itself?

[Jonny69]

Well done Darrin, glad to hear the news :)

[Darrin]

To answer some of the questions (if I leave any out, I apologize. I just finished unloading the truck, so I'm a little knackered right now) we brought 4 of the 8 cats with us. The little orange and white tabby went to a friend, the deaf black one went to another couple, and the two sisters went to a girl I worked with. So that left us with Kitty, the big fluffy one (also called Momma). Tigger, the black and white one. Shadow the little grey Russian Blue, and Scrappy, the tiger striped one.

The two dogs went to a family that owned a farm out in the middle of nowhere (like my place) about 10 miles away. Within 30 minutes of dropping them off they ran away. 12 hours later Caramel showed back up in our driveway. No idea what happened to Pepper (Caramel's sister). Another family that lived 19 miles away agreed to take Caramel. We took her over the night before we left. Two days later a friend dropped by to check our mail for us and said Caramel was back sitting on the porch. So now I have no idea what's going to happen to her.

As to the drive? It was the definition of HELL!! Road construction on all the freeways, everyone wanting to do 75-80mph and the truck I was driving had a 74mph limiter on it. Every bump in the road jarred the teeth out of our heads. Navigating parking lots for food or lodging was an hour long affair. None of the hotels we'd booked reservations with had them, and they were all full by the time we got there.

We finally get here to the apartment on Saturday, get a portion of the lease filled out only to find that the price they quoted us had gone up by at least $150 a month plus the deposit had gone up by $400. The garage we had rented to keep all our extra stuff in couldn't be opened because the remote was broken. So now we've got a rented truck stuffed with all our crap costing us $99 a day that we can't empty. And the day we CAN get a working remote? Tina's due at her new job at 5AM. There's several pieces of furniture there's no way I can even move myslelf, so I have to schedule a moving helper's company to come unload the truck with me. Today. So there's $250 for them, another $200 for the truck rental, yada yada yada.

Oh, and the internet is a shared cable connection. Meaning that in the evening there are 252 apartments sharing one cable internet connection that doesn't allow java so Tina can't play her favorite site, pogo.com.

Needless to say I'm not too impressed with the place we moved into...

Anyways, I need a smoke. And I'm about ready to take up drinking again after 15 years sober.

Oh, and I need to go find myself a vehicle before tomorrow night when I'm expected at work. That is if I can get Tina to be able to drive herself to work. She got lost three times this morning, so I'm going on 36 hours without sleep right now...

[Belmit]

Well that puts my 'warning lights on the dashboard' and 'burst toner cartridge trouser mess + inhalation' day into perspective! Sounds like bad luck piled on top of more bad luck. Best of luck with the rest of it dude.

[Haly]

Erk :( That sounds crappy.

[Del Lardo]

and I thought I had some travelling stories!

Hope you can get things sorted soon.