Movin' On

    Since we moved to Durham almost 4 years ago, we have lived in a 3rd floor apartment.  Although the 4 years were not without issues(cigarette smoke wafting up from the apartment below - leaks in the closet - etc.), it was a nice place to live.

     The third floor location was, however, getting to be a pain, particularly when having to walk the dogs at 6 AM every morning.  To be totally truthful,  the morning shift is Nan's.  I would do the "before you go to bed" shift.  The other issue was sharing office space.   We converted a bedroom into a joint office, which proved problematic on occasions.  Anyway, we decided to look for a house with a fenced in backyard. This would allow us to open the backdoor and let the dogs out at 6 AM instead of taking them for a walk.  Our search was lengthy but wouldn't you know we found a place two blocks from our apartment complex.  It's probably bigger than we need, but we like the area.

     The only problem with the move was that the new house isn't available until August 1st.  This required us to put everything into storage for 2 months.  In essence then, we have two moves to deal with.  The first was bad enough.  Who knew we had accumulated so much in 4 short years.  We estimated 20 boxes and it turned out to be double that.  The moving company is Durham based and runs a storage facility as well.  It is actually operated as a not-for-profit using recovering addicts as employees.  They did a great job.

                                            
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     We completed the move around 2 PM, and then headed North for the summer.  To avoid rush hour around DC, we went the "back way" spending the night in New Market, VA.  That left about 8 hours back to AP.