I'm looking forward to taking the Alaska ferry again; not so much looking forward to driving the UHaul from Bellingham to Atlanta. But we're basically unwilling to let moving companies touch our shit any more unless we have no other options. Last time around, they lost, stole, or broke literally thousands and thousands of dollars worth of stuff. Same as the time before.
Example: how do you lose a bicycle? (Or steal it)? Answer: you fail to put a number sticker on it, and then claim that it was never loaded on the truck, so you're not responsible for it. J watched them load it (it was her mountain bike) but somehow it didn't pop out on the other end. To this day, we still find ourselves looking for stuff, and realizing that the movers lost/stole it.
Late tonight I fly to Seattle, to spend a night, to fly to SFO tomorrow, and then on to London, and Ireland after that. Big times! Upon returning, I turn around almost immediately for five days in NYC, including testing my new route for walking out of JFK to the subway without paying for the ripoff AirTrain .
On which note, I really need to keep packing, and going through boxes. Turns out it's not really efficient to continue moving multiple boxes of little scraps of paper from the mid-90s, especially when you move every six to twenty-four months.
