I have a good reason for not having updated in over a week.
We have spent the last week or so trying to find a way to get out of our current lease. We’ve been wanting to move out of New York for a while and now that there’s no specific obligations tying us down, we thought it would definitely be a waste of money to keep paying our exuberant rent.
It took a bit of creativity and a lot of money, but we broke our lease. We’re leaving in less than two weeks. The minute after we made the decision, we started packing. A week later, we’re still packing and we got a ways to go. We’ve been in our current apartment for seven years. One accumulates quite a bit of crap over that many years. Two accumulate even more.
We’re still trying to figure out between self-moving and a very affordable small moving company in Brooklyn. Finding a balance between insane amount of work and the risk of our life-belongings disappearing forever.
After the next two weeks, the insanity is just beginning. Between now and August, we will: move to Jake’s garage in Boston, buy a car and do all the car work for it, buy a tent and other car-trip stuff, drive to Miami for a wedding, drive to New Orleans/Baton Rouge/Mississippi Delta for sight-seeing, drive to Atlanta for a graduation, do some more sightseeing on the way back to Boston, drive to Pittsburgh for another wedding, come back to New York for Jake to take an exam, fly to the Caymans for eight days, back to New York, go to Turkey for two weeks, back to Boston for a third wedding, and finally, take a month to drive cross country.
We will ideally end up in San Diego where we will rent for a month or so to checkout neighborhoods and find an apartment. Once we settle in, we will move all of our shit from Boston. This is assuming we like San Diego since neither one of us has ever been there.
Hectic? Yep! Fun? We sure plan for it to be! Insane? So what?
I plan to write a script so I can post updates from my Blackberry since we plan to tent it at least two nights out of three. I will definitely post from Boston and most likely from Turkey, too. I don’t know about the Caymans.
In the meantime, we need to finish packing.
Told you I had a good reason.
San Diego is a nice place, with warm weather much of the year. I spent a year there in UC San Diego’s Grad School in 1989 / 1990, and visited again in 2001 – it’s still as charming now as it was then. One word of warning, tho – it’s a retirement community like Florida.
this is so cool! congratulations on starting a new stage in your lives together!
WOW. You’l be needing a lot of energy!! Best of luck, hope evrything works out!! 🙂