General Discussion

The worst was our move from California to Minnesota. We moved before finding a new house there, so storage was going to be a problem. Cost, too. So, what I did was buy a 24' moving van from UHaul. After having it thoroughly checked out and minor repairs done, I took a month to slowly load everything we moved into that van. When we drove away from our home and office in California, it was packed full from side to side, top to bottom and front to back. It weighed only 400 lb. under the maximum GVW for that truck.

I drove the truck and my wife drove our minivan. We took six days to go 2500 miles. Then, we stayed in her parents house for a month, with the truck full of our worldly possessions stored in a truck storage yard. A month after we arrived, we closed on our new house, got the truck and hired movers to unload it into the new digs. Then, I sold the truck for only a little less than I paid for it. Good deal all around.

I had lived in the California house for 35 years. When we sold the new house in Minnesota to buy a different, smaller one, we had lived there for 13 years. I don't think we'll move from our current one at all. So, yes, I hate moving!