Peter was still asleep at 715 am when the movers arrived. We did a walk through of the house and garage. with Rick, the truck driver(more on him later). Melissa was talking to them in the kitchen when I came down from my shower in my bathrobe!
The truck is taking up half our street, width-wise. They didn't want to park on the front lawn because of our tree branches. This truck is one of those huge atlas vans that is 83 feet long and 13.6 feet high. There is already one household in it that will be dropped off in Wisconsin. It is hard to believe that all of our stuff is going to fit into the remainig space. I'll post some before and after pictures later.
There are a total of 5 guys. They are nice guys. It is like we are all just hanging out. While they pack our stuff we're making quick decisions but also talking and getting to know each other. Rick has been all over the country and doing his job for 28 years so he has lots of stories.
It is 10 am and they are almost finished with the upstairs! Rick said they MIGHT be able to pack and load today but there is more packing than they realized at first.
Rick is on the road about 300 days out of the year. He lives in southern Maryland, has a wife, and 3 kids, one in college and two in high school. I imagine it must be hard to be away from his family so much.
We have one little area we are keeping segregated that is going with us. One area outside is stuff going to the dump or goodwill.
Our cars are going to get picked up this afternoon. The first one goes at 1 pm and the second one goes after 3 pm. The will get towed by local services and then loaded on to a carrier tonight for the trip back East. Unfortunately, the date range of delivery is longer than we would like. Our cars might not make it to our house until Oct 16th.
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