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Yesterday I had flashbacks to packing up the moving truck to move out from Arizona to New York. It took us a full day in the middle of July to get everything loaded in, so we didn't set up driving until nightfall. Thankfully I was smart about that and planned our first stop for Payson, not far out of town.
All things considered, we did better than that yesterday, given that we were only (ha!) loading up a car, not a large moving truck. We got out the door by 3 pm, and made our way back to Huron, OH by 11:30 pm.
At the last minute we discovered that the bike rack I bought at Goodwill in Arizona isn't compatible with the rear hatch on this car. Darn! So there was a quick detour over to a UHaul to obtain one of those bike racks that mounts into a hitch receiver.
George did not appreciate being grabbed and stuffed into the smaller cat carrier, to a few minutes after we started driving, he peed in the carrier. We didn't really have the resources for a full cat pee clean-up while enroute, so day 1 of this trip managed to be far more smelly than any of my Arizona return trip days, heh.
I did not wind up packing along enough Anti Icky-Poo, so that's on the shopping list now.
We looked more closely at the alternate ferry route across Lake Michigan, but it's rather expensive, so on we go towards Rockland, IL today.
We can even see out the rear window!
But hopefully today we can fix visibility to the right rear blind spot.
S had disassembled the bike to get it wedged in the car for the trip to UHaul, so this is as far as he got with reassembly for Day 1.
It's hard to see, but he has repositioned his Safety Pizza for the trip. I just feel better about life with a Safety Pizza on my rear.
I probably won't get caught up on reading blogs until we reach Seattle. I get carsick if I try to read in the car, plus I expect to be doing a lot of the driving.
All things considered, we did better than that yesterday, given that we were only (ha!) loading up a car, not a large moving truck. We got out the door by 3 pm, and made our way back to Huron, OH by 11:30 pm.
At the last minute we discovered that the bike rack I bought at Goodwill in Arizona isn't compatible with the rear hatch on this car. Darn! So there was a quick detour over to a UHaul to obtain one of those bike racks that mounts into a hitch receiver.
George did not appreciate being grabbed and stuffed into the smaller cat carrier, to a few minutes after we started driving, he peed in the carrier. We didn't really have the resources for a full cat pee clean-up while enroute, so day 1 of this trip managed to be far more smelly than any of my Arizona return trip days, heh.
I did not wind up packing along enough Anti Icky-Poo, so that's on the shopping list now.
We looked more closely at the alternate ferry route across Lake Michigan, but it's rather expensive, so on we go towards Rockland, IL today.
We can even see out the rear window!
But hopefully today we can fix visibility to the right rear blind spot.
S had disassembled the bike to get it wedged in the car for the trip to UHaul, so this is as far as he got with reassembly for Day 1.
It's hard to see, but he has repositioned his Safety Pizza for the trip. I just feel better about life with a Safety Pizza on my rear.
I probably won't get caught up on reading blogs until we reach Seattle. I get carsick if I try to read in the car, plus I expect to be doing a lot of the driving.
