We've completed our Road Trip to deliver my woodworking and R/C hobby items to our new home in the Pacific Northwest. We left our home this morning and flew back to our house in the Valley of the Sun this afternoon. Our Valley house is no longer our home, but temporary quarters. It now has the feeling as such. This transition from this dwelling that yes, was a house when we arrived here more than twenty-five years ago, settled so solidly into our home. A house that we brought three very young children to and quickly transformed it into a home to raise them in. A home that my wife and I became Empty Nesters in. A home that we remodeled once again into a house that prospective buyers would see as such and as my wife and I did, see it as fitting to develop into a home.

Next chapter.

I snapped a few pics along the trek from the Valley to the PNW (Pacific Northwest). Enjoy.

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We unloaded the last of the contents of the truck and returned it to a U-haul center in Olympia, Washington. That was a very liberating event!

All the woodworking and R/C hobby items made the trip unscathed. All the kits are in the same sound shape that they left Phoenix in, and all the plan tubes are intact. The two wooden crates that I constructed for my partially built models are undamaged, but I did not have the proper tools to open them and check their contents. If the crates were damaged, I would have made a trip into town to procure the necessary tools to open and inspect my models. I am confident that they made the trip just fine. It will be another six to eight weeks before we make our final trek from Phoenix to the new house. I'll post the condition of the crated models then.

Thanks for following along.

EJ

Put in an eleven-hour day of driving today. 714 miles. Made it to Eugene, Oregon - home of the University of Oregon Ducks. Home of Coach Bill Bowerman of Nike co-founder fame. Coach to track star Steve Prefontaine. Cool stuff.

Another four-plus hours to the house! Easy enough.

EJ

Knocked-off 530 miles today. That leaves 15-hours driving time to go. I'll put in a long day tomorrow and coast on in on Friday.

EJ

Well, here we go! Tomorrow morning I'll leave the Valley of the Sun in a 26' U-Haul van and make my way to the Pacific Northwest. I'll be bringing all of my R/C hobby "stuff" as well as a good load of nonessential household items. The remainder of our possessions will be professionally moved.

As faith would have it, The two days I was loading the van, Monday and Tuesday were two hot days - upper 90's! I must have drank a case of water each day, yet still ended-up a bit dehydrated (muscle cramps). Clothes soaked. Moving at zombie speed plus a little. Though, in hindsight, I loaded in two days what took several months to accumulate in storage. Not bad!

I'll be a three-day trip from the Valley to the new house. I'll take my time and drink-in the climatic change from hot and dry to cool and moist.

Another adventure unfolds.

EJ

We completed our home remodeling and (via realtor) put our Arizona home on the market this last Wednesday, April 9th. The house was shown the next day, April 10th. An offer to buy from this showing came to us through our realtor the next day, April 11th. WHAT? Listing-to-contract in TWO DAYS? I guess the market is back! The offer was great, and we are under contract.

Finally, I will get to chronicle the relocating of The Hobby from one residence to another in the next several weeks.

Thanks for hanging in there with me, and I'll finally be able to post progress soon.

EJ