The boxes arrive outside our door.

More boxes outside our door.

Packing

Please note a newspaper machine...

.. is not a flotation device.

Towing my car

A side view

Truckers

Giuliano carefully packing all of our dishes away.

I had to take a shot of this while at a rest stop in Virginia. It would be my only time during the whole trip that I had to take photos.

The reason I took a picture of this becomes clear when you see the next image.

A zoom in of the note on the newspaper machine of the previous picture.

Now one can't help but gawk at such a note.

"Oh no a flood is coming! Quick! Get on the newspaper machine! It'll save us!"

Phhht.

My car being towed at the back of the truck we rented. It's all nice and muddy by now. We kept checking on it at every rest stop to make sure it was still secured down tightly.

Yup a dirty car alright.

Just a picture to show you how long the truck and car were together.

In case you've never seen a 25 foot rental truck before, there it is. We had to stop at weigh stations, use truck stops, and keep an eye on the mirrors in case someone wanted to try to cut us off.

We packed that thing to the brim! Literally! According to Penske this size truck is for 6-8 rooms. And we had 2 bedrooms, a frontroom, and a kitchen. Problem is the furnature took half of the room by itself at least. (Since you can't stack furnature up very high.)

Furnature: Futon, Kitchen table + 4 chairs, 3 large chairs, 2 PC desks, 2 dressers, 3 nightstands, chest, 5-6 foot table used for drawing, full sized bedframe, 1 set of 3 nesting tables, another small dresser a bit bigger than the nightstands, and 2 computer chairs. (Though I may have forgotten a few things.)