Category Archives: Planning
Help Me Pack
I’m making what is hopefully our last run to REI this weekend (conveniently timed to coincide with their Labor Day Sale). I’ll probably also stop in at Target and maybe Hudson Trail Outfitters. We have most of the items on our packing list, but there a couple of things I still need to pick up. (Ex-Officio underwear at 30% off sounds like a deal to me!) Plus I just want to browse through the stores, looking for anything I might …
Complications with our Itinerary
You know how you have everything figured out once and for all? How things are perfectly organized? When all the generalities are in their proper order and you’re only worrying about the minutiae and detail? You’ve got the goal in sight and just have to shape the edges? And then you take one last look at it and reality sets in and you realize it’s all completely wrong … That was us today. We went back through our general path …
An Ode to Our Apartment
Thanks to seven friends who offered helping hands in exchange for pizza and beer, we are all loaded up. The many hands made light work of the hauling, and their expertise in loading trucks and their knack for spatial relationships (a skill I’m sorely lacking) was much appreciated. It’s good to have friends. Leaving them behind is certainly not something we’re looking forward to. But tomorrow we hit the road, driving our 16-foot Penske truck through the western reaches of …
Oh the Horror That is Moving
In the grand scheme of things, there are, of course, many things much worse than moving, but just let me be dramatic for a moment and say that as I sit here Sunday night after two full days of emptying closets, sorting through belongings, and packing boxes, I can hardly imagine what they are. And to think that we just have a one-bedroom apartment with very little closet space. What in the heck are people thinking when they buy those …
Flights? What?
I was wondering today, where’s my flying car? We now have all these tiny Star Trek style cell phones, we beam information through those internet tubes all the time, and yet I still can’t get a flying car! All I want is to be able to pack up my things, stick in it my flying car, and head off wherever I need to go. Oh, and since it runs on food scraps a la Back to the Future, it solves …
The Countdown Begins
You know that point where “The departure date for this trip will never arrives” meets “Oh my god, I can’t believe how soon we leave.” Yeah. I’m there. Think State Farm can help? No? Me neither. But at this point, I’m certainly feeling like I could stand for someone to jump in and lend a hand (or twelve). I can’t even count how many days, months, and years this trip has been brewing, so to think that it’s right on …
How to Save Money When You Don’t Have Much to Begin With
It seems like finances—personal, corporate, and government—are big news these days. I can’t click over to CNN without reading some story about the current financial crisis…or the custody battle of some celebrity. Obviously both topics that require careful consideration by the American public. But I digress, the quality of news on CNN is a topic for another day. Today I want to talk about finances, and in particular those articles that promise to tell you how to save money and …
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Computer: Check!
Finding a good travel laptop can be a difficult thing. You want something that is small, light, durable, has great battery life, and enough inputs to help you around the world. Oh, and cheap. We previously posted about trying to find a good travel laptop ever since we decided we were definitely going to take one. Well, I think we’ve found what we’ve been looking for, so take note if you’re in the same boat. It is actually a laptop …
On My Way to Unemployment
JOB Pronunciation: \‘jōb\ Function: noun Etymology: perhaps from obsolete job lump Date: circa 1627 1a: a piece of work; especially : a small miscellaneous piece of work undertaken on order at a stated rate 2c: a damaging or destructive bit of work 3a: something that has to be done; an undertaking requiring unusual exertion (Excerpted from Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary) *************************************************** Come August 28, the etymological root of job will not be the only things that is obsolete; my days as …
Seven Good Reasons We Shouldn’t Take This Trip
1. The American economy is tanking, and it’s a deep, deep pool. Where people gladly took dollars, they now sneer at our greenbacks and demand local currency or Euros. Everything is more expensive than it was just a year ago. 2. America isn’t winning the World’s Most Popular Country competition. In fact, we were eliminated in the first round, not even getting a chance to show off our star-spangled bikini. People dislike and distrust America. We’re going to have to …
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