All posts tagged: moving

Another Year, Another Adventure..

Published by Troups

It was exactly one year ago on March 4th, 2012 when our friend Doug dropped us to the Newark Airport early in the morning. It is one of those moments I will never forget. We had been busy wrapping work, packing our apartment, renting the place and stuffing everything we would own for 5 months in our backpacks. For weeks, it hadn’t hit us that we were leaving our jobs, our home, our friends, and our lives behind. We had been talking for almost one year about travelling around the world. The idea seemed silly. We joked and laughed about it. It was something that would never ever happen. Who would leave their good jobs, their home, to live out of a backpack for months? We weren’t ready to do the planning that went into something monumental like this. The Day Dan’s ‘stuff’ for 5 months My stuff for 5 months But the idea stuck in our heads. We talked about it every weekend. And, then we talked about it every day at work, …

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 …