First delivery trip to Cedar

I just returned from trip number one to drop off our belongings in Cedar. Like our previous blog, we are posting these things for our own log of our adventures, if people want to read and post comments, that is great. But you might find some of the postings boring, such as what we at a particular restaurant, or how bad the roads were on a particular day. I did set it so that anyone can comment.

This was a short trip, I left Tuesday morning and returned Wednesday morning. I brought a whole van load full of stuff, filled to the top. The trip was uneventful, except for the drive home, which was on snow covered roads half of the way. I did stop at the Turtle Creek Casino and won about $90 playing Three Card Poker and Let it Ride.

Sunday we are getting a large UHaul trailer and bringing a large load, including some furniture back up north on Monday. It is exciting that we have started this adventure, but right now, readying the house seems overwhelming. Pat worked very hard while I was gone, but we have a long way to go.

Dan

link to Pat's blog from last year

The beginning of this adventure actually began last year for Pat, who went out to California for 5 weeks, to the same area, Novato. Her blog is http://www.sfstairways.blogspot.com. If you are following this, it would be good to read that. Her focus, along with the many insights she gained, was finding the many stairway walks of San Francisco and the Bay area.

Now she is excited to pursue this even more, with Dan by her side. We are also bringing our dog, Gus, our lovable lab-newfie with us.

Preparing for our trip

Step one in a trip like this is to prepare your current home, or in our case homes, to be left empty. We have been working hard to empty the Ann Arbor house, so that it can be available for rent. Our initial plan was to rent it short term, up to six months. We listed it with a realtor and have since realized there is also a long term rental market for people coming to Ann Arbor for work for 2-3 years. So we are planning with that also as an option. We have spent the last week throwing things out, preparing things for storage, and traveling to the Salvation Army and the Ann Arbor land fill. Dan is going to take a full van of things to Cedar today. Our long term plan is to relocate in Cedar and rent the Ann Arbor house for a while until the economy rejuvenates. We are excited and overwhelmed at the moment.

More postings later

Dan