Somehow my wife and I find ourselves off on another adventure: Life in sun-filled Orange County, California!
In the span of about a month, I quit my job (soul sucking), did a bunch of work on the house, made some long needed updates to my VW van, was presented with a job offer that I couldn’t refuse, packed our house, and moved South – like 902 miles south – to our new home in Orange County.
The move was a little nuts with a bunch people showing up to pack and load our house into a 40’ trailer. It was a Bedlam! A single day pack and load became a LONG 2-day affair with up to 10 packers in our house the final day. Laurel was a trooper during it all.
My shop was on me to move and my dear friend Mark flew in from Colorado, we rented a forklift and had everything packed up in a 26’ Penske truck like a Jenga set. The truck was rated at 26,000lbs GVW for the type of license I have (class C) and we weighed in at 34,450lbs, less than the vehicle’s true capacity, but still REAL HEAVY! That was before I hooked up the 2-axle trailer with the jeep on it as well! Driving the mountain passes from Eugene to SoCal was not fun in any single sort of a way! I could not have done it without Mark. He followed behind in the FULLY loaded Subaru with a heavy trailer for the whole drive south and was amazing in general! He out worked the team of movers I hired to help load and the team on the other end I hired to help unload. A BEAST!
My new Company paid to have the VWs shipped and the transport company showed up the same day as the house movers. It was a little nerve racking seeing them both go up on the trailer and then drive away, but they arrived safely and the only damage was to an interior door pocket that the shipper used as a handle getting up into the Doka.
We really are looking forward to this adventure. It is not our first go-round in SoCal: We actually met here and fell in love, so it is a home coming of sorts and this time we are looking at it with older, wiser eyes and those of new parents. Logan is going to love it here!
This was not in our plans, but “If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans…”