Exodus

So August has come, making the date of our departure seem that much closer in the mirror as it speeds toward us. We managed our grueling weekend move, which included a caravan of Rick, Erica, and us taking three vehicles worth of furniture and boxes to Travis’ parents’ house in the Imperial Valley for storage. We managed to fill two of their closets and a small part of the garage with various items, which they have offered to store while we’re gone. Thanks for the storage space folks, and thanks so much for driving all the way from San Diego to help us get moved out Rick and Erica! I don’t know how we could have done it without you.

After lunch, Judi, Rick, & Erica headed back up to San Diego, and Judi spent Saturday evening cleaning while Travis hauled the boxes upstairs at his parents’ house and organized them. Sunday the 30th was still worse than Saturday, as it included moving everything else out of the apartment. Unfortunately, the moving company didn’t have the contract in time to take all of our stored items directly from our old apartment, so we had to make five runs to our temporary residence in Tierrasanta at Doug & Lana’s house to store these things. We then cleaned the apartment and returned the truck to Escondido. After everything was said and done, it was 7:30 on Sunday evening, making for a fatigued week.

As of now we are living out of a few bags, suffering from “intermittent WIFI connectivity syndrome” (a severe psychological disorder), and are doing our best to keep the house as clean as possible. On the up side, our part of the moving is finished, and only having to worry about a few bags of items is a liberating feeling.

Lastly, Travis has his plane tickets for his pre-employment training at the Belgium lab for the latter part of August. He’s leaving August 19th, and returning directly to Portland on Saturday afternoon (the 2nd of September), immediately prior to the wedding rehearsal. There is still no word on which day we will be leaving in September for our ultimate move, though I imagine we’ll know this by the time of the wedding. In all this visa/passport/travel/moving business I still don’t envy Nay and her wedding/school/exams flurry of activity, she has my sympathy.