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Jersey Trampin

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So, at the start of our little world adventure, we decided that if there is an option to get from point A to point B for ‘almost’  free then we’ll take it. Unfortunately for us we took on this mission outside a long term storage facility in nowhere South Jersey to park our car for the next 4 months. We decided to take the NJ Transit train back to Hoboken from the storage facility. The pudgy guy with likeable face behind the counter pointed down the road and said, “Just walk up the road a little ways and hang a right by the movie theater, and the train station should be on your right..probably like a 20 minutes walk” An hour later after crossing 3 major highways, and passing four taco bells we began to question the dudes estimation skills. My guess is that there is not a lot of walking done in these parts of Jersey. Hell there is not even a good pedestrian walk way on the road and after 15 mins we …

Packing-Fixing-Storing-Moving..

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Our last week in Jersey finally arrived. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since we put in our notices – never ending going away dinners, lunches, parties, endless amount of transition at work causing us to wake up at different time zones.  We’ve also have our very own vengeful Poltergeist running around breaking things in the house faster than we can fix them.  Who knows, maybe he was sad that we were leaving him behind. It does look like Dan did all the work. Trust me, I was always right next to him helping him 🙂 So far, we’ve fixed leaks in both the kitchen and bathroom sink, recaulked the entire bathroom since we started to notice gaps, the closet door which wouldn’t stay in the tracking mechanism, and a few recent dings in our hardwood floors.  And if this wasn’t enough we had two freak accidents over the last few days, one involving one of our glass pendant light shades randomly falling and smashing on our marble breakfast bar right in front of …

The Day

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“Breathe. Breatheeeee! It will be over soon” I kept telling myself on the train from home to work this morning. My palms were sweaty and my stomach felt queasy. I wasn’t coming down with a case of food poisoning.  I was just about to give my resignation in 15 minutes. “You are stupid. STOP this craziness. You are going to get bored. Travelling is not easy, it can take a toll on you. You are not going to find any job in this kind of market when you get back. What are you going to do with health insurance? You never had to think about it until now.  You want to leave this job to fulfill some travel dream?! It is silly. Guptas don’t do that!!” “Oh, you are going to have the time of your life. Life is too short! This is the best time in your life to do this and make a lifestyle change. You can make money different ways. You can learn new skills!! You can do whatever. You are FREE!! You can …