The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Well, we made it. The first phase of our move from Fort St. John, British Columbia to Saint John, New Brunswick, is completed. Although we have no place here and are temporarily staying with the missus' parents, we are here.It took 5 1/2 days for 5800 Km, and it was just aboot the most hellish drive I could have imagined. A V6 truck pulling a 4500 lb "farmer built" trailer, with 2 cats and a dog in the cab with us. OMFG. Never doing that again. I'm too tired to convert/upload the video, but here's a transcript...

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QoTD:
what's the farthest move you've ever made?

qotd: New York City to Seattle, WA. That's about the furthest move you can make while remaining in this country (and ending up in a city worth living in, anyway).

I've driven across your fine nation but not with a house load of stuff. I've also canoed quite a bit on the Saint John river, though quite a bit farther north than the city itself. Nice folk up there. Hope it goes well for you.

In '89, my family moved from Reno, NV to Winchester, VA. Took the southern route through Texas in the middle of the winter, 'cause, you know, taking on the Rockies in December is stupid. Yeah... this was the year Amarillo got three feet of snow. My mom had her CDL, so we rented one of those 40-footer moving vans and towed our Ford F150 behind. We planned for 3-4 days. I think it ended up taking 5 or 6. Two cats, a dog and three hamsters in the cab with three humans. As an 11 year-old, this was the height of adventure. Looking back on it, it's a pleasant memory but I really wonder what my mother was huffing to do that to herself.

I moved from eastern Massachusetts to Albuquerque,NM. About four years later, I reversed the move. Aprroximately 2300 miles. My little Toyota packed full. And there are cities east of New York worth living in, as well. Boston, Providence, Portland ME, to name a few.

I've moved across the country three times in my life. I was born in California, moved to new York when I was young, moved back to California a few years later, and then moved back across to Virginia when I was 13. I remember moving to virginia very well, and we drove with an enormous number of animals. It was ridiculous. We alomst lost at least all of them once. Moving all your stuff sucks on its own, whether it be 10 miles or 3000. Doing so with any number of pets immediately makes the situation worse exponentially.

When I was 11, we moved from Ohio to California. 3000'ish miles with our 2 poodles in a corvair van packed to the gills pulling a trailer. It was quite an adventurous 5 days.

highlights:
*one of our poodles threw up on my brother

*a stop at some small town gas station, the vending machine would give you back your money as well as the item you selected. ERMAHGERD! I loaded up!

*another small town gas station had a "fresh" pop corn machine. I put in my money, put the cup under the slot and rejoiced at the fresh popped deliciousity that filled up my cup and the prize at the end, a live mouse. It took me a second to process that mice aren't supposed to be in pop corn. It looked at me, I looked at it and it, we both looked like this 0_o and then he jumped on my foot and ran away. I went back to the van still looking like this 0_o and told my dad what happened. He said, CoOl pOp cOrN! Then grabbed my pop corn and munched down a fist full. We don't let little things like mice set us back, so I as well ate the "fresh" popped gift of the mouse machine.

*lots of other stuff, but I need to go to the bathroom.

signboy wrote: QoTD:
what's the farthest move you've ever made?

Sydney, NSW to the village of Bikenibeu on Tarawa atoll in the Rebublic of Kiribati. A mere 3900 km, but done by plane via Honiara in the Solomon Is. and Nauru. All of our belongings were packed into some wooden crates I made out of an old wardrobe and a desk and arrived by ship 3 months later.

Also from Gold Coast Qld to Mt Isa Qld. A 2050km drive over 2 and a half days in a Ford econovan with two dogs and a cat. And the reverse 2 years later.

Our move a few years ago to Taranaki New Zealand was a breeze by comparison. The dogs and cat flew and professional movers did all the packing and other stuff.

I moved house again about 4 weeks ago - virtually just around the corner - a distance of about 400 metres. It still sucked.

I moved from Cleveland to Austin after getting married. About 1400 miles. Not nearly as far as some of you guys.

Wow, Signboy. That's a heckuva way to move in one go. Finding it difficult to adjust to the time difference?

Seattle to Boston in a Fiat Spider with all of our belongings tied to the top (like the IKEA VW), northern route through the Canadien (fuck you spell-check) Rockies, and down through Niagara Falls. Best part was that before the drive, I "fixed" then window washers that had never worked. Part way through the windiest part of the drive through mountain roads, I hit the button and it emptied the whole tank onto my windshield. Like a scene from a National Lampoon movie, we were totally covered in suds with our wipers on, covering all of the many cars following behind us in suds as well...

Jon: no, the time difference wasn't bad to get used to. The lack of jobs might be, though.

Hmm, just Buffalo NY to Williamsburg VA (about an 11-hour drive).
-bill