Moving North (Nov. 18-20)

Back in February 2004, Jen's mom helped her move cross-country to McAllen, TX.

Andrew's mom flew down to help move us back north.

All of our stuff has been sitting in a self-store unit in Texas. We opted for this because it's a whole lot cheaper than renting the apartment for the time while we were road tripping.

Our friends Alex and Oscar helped us load the 16' Penske rental truck in a few hours. One of the tires was bald; Penske fixed that within the hour. Our Penske experience was great: new equipment, reasonable price, friendly service.

Andrew's fear in towing the Ion on the car carrier behind the truck was having to back up at some point in the trip. 1,551 miles later, it never happened. We drove it in 3 days.

We unloaded our stuff in Wisconsin at Lynne's Self Storage (Jen's mom's). She no longer has a useable dining room. We turned our attention to the 15 lbs of mail waiting for us.