On our way...

Uggghhhhhh. Well, we had a lot more work to do on the house than we thought. We planned to get on the road by 7 p.m. Tuesday, but didn't actually get out until 3:00 Wednesday morning. We have relied heavily on neighbors and friends to help us stick to our schedule of driving overnight Tuesday night. The facility where were are storing pretty much everything we own closed at 7 .pm, so we were unable to finish moving everything out of the house. Our friends have agreed to finish that huge job for us. And, so we don't have to run the air conditioning non-stop or worry about the lawn getting mowed, our neighbor has very kindly taken on both of those jobs. Thank you so much Frank & Jen and Bud & Diane.

I have to add that this was by far, the most complicated move I've ever done. Usually, you just dump the stuff into boxes to unpack at the new house. This time, we had to make the following decisions about everything:

1. Do we need it on the boat?
2. If we don't need it on the boat, is it worth storing?
3. Is there room in the storage area for it?
4. If it's not worth storing, do we try to sell it, give it to neighbors/friends, give it to charity, or just throw it out?

Let's just say we gave away A LOT of stuff.

Anyway, after about 900 miles and 16 hours or so on the road, we are finally in Maryland, about an hour drive from Annapolis. We meet Fun Brian at the boat tomorrow at noon EDT for the walk-through. The weather Saturday morning looks like it will be the best of the weekend for moving the boat from the CatCo docks in Annapolis to Rock Hall, which will be our "home" for the next couple months.

By the way, the drive through West Virginia and Maryland was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!