We Arrived

We arrived in Dallas on Saturday afternoon around 2:30 pm, which gave us enough time to hit a bank and get a safe-deposit box, which gave us some peace of mind.

The moving truck is late: because of the ice storm and its effects on routes 78, 80, and 81, the driver was considerably delayed and STILL hasn't arrived. He should be here tonight, he'll spend the night, and then tomorrow morning we'll unload it, partly into a self-storage bin, and partly into the apartment. Then we'll be set, more or less.

The movers have been the biggest pain in the ass so far: they came a day late, didn't bring hand-trucks or dollies (we had to run to a hardware store and buy them). They were supposed to be here on Saturday morning, we had lined up a few guys to help us unload, but that fell through. We have to wait until the morning, and see if we can get a few people to help us with this.

But Dallas is beautiful. The weather is in the high 50's F, supposed to be in the 70's on Thursday. There's other things about Dallas that we love, but I'll save that for subsequent posts.

On the road in Virginia.

Dang it

I sent a few pictures to my blogger account, but they didn't post, unfortunately. I will try again, since I still have them on the phone, but now they are no longer timely.

We're in Little Rock, Arkansas, after driving the length of Tennessee.

We'll be in Dallas tomorrow late morning or early afternoon.

Somewhere in Tennessee...

On the road in Virginia.

It's Almost Just Begun

We're selling the apartment here in New York (as referenced within the pictures posted earlier). Unfortunately, the closing was postponed from today until next week, so I'm actually going to have to fly back to NY on Thursday.

But here's the deal: We leave tomorrow, driving down. We're going to shoot for Nashville, Tennessee by the end of the day, and then arrive in Dallas on Friday evening. Thursday we fly back, and then drive the other car down too. So we're going to have to drive the trip twice.

The driver of the truck (we filled a 26 foot truck) will arrive on Saturday morning, and we've got a few guys coming by to help unload. Then, Saturday evening, the Time Warner guy will come by and hook us up with some cable modem action.

Currently I'm stealing wireless bandwidth from someone nearby in the building, it's a pretty good connection when it's up, but sometimes it drops me.

I'll be checking in with more pictures over time. Tomorrow, look for a shot of the Murano that we'll be driving down, and shots of scenery as we fly by in a two-day flurry of travel.

And we are done!

Empty!

Move in progress.

So we're moving to Dallas in about 2 to 3 weeks.

This is the nightmare of boxes in the corner. There's more, in the other room, and just out of sight of this picture. It's insane.

I'm going to try to chronicle the move here, using my camera phone. Occasionally you might see just pictures with crap text: don't worry, I'll be back to edit it a little later.

Seeya!
-Tom