I know exactly what it's like to move to the opposite side of the country. Three years ago, I moved from Seattle to Orlando. Thankfully, all I had to move was a car and my stuff. Hope you have a great adventure in your new home. Although I spoke to my parents yesterday and they said it was 50 degrees. Brrrr... -- The Dax Files

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Date Posted: 05:38:02 06/18/07 Mon
Author: mandevilla
Subject: I know exactly what it's like to move to the opposite side of the country. Three years ago, I moved from Seattle to Orlando. Thankfully, all I had to move was a car and my stuff. Hope you have a great adventure in your new home. Although I spoke to my parents yesterday and they said it was 50 degrees. Brrrr...
In reply to: Lynn 's message, "Happy Father's Day--and ugh, moving is such a pain!" on 08:09:06 06/17/07 Sun

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What route did you drive, Mandy--and how long did it take you? (LOTS more inside) ------>> -- Lynn, 07:32:22 06/18/07 Mon [1]

I think the quickest way is diagonally across country, going through Colorado, the midwest, then the southeast to FL--it's about 3100 miles that way. We're taking the SW route which is 3800 miles, stopping overnight in Alabama, Arkansas, and New Mexico. Although this route is adding about 700 miles, we want to stop in the Phoenix area and have a short visit with Grammy, and our other relatives who live out there.

After leaving AZ, we'll stop overnight in central CA, and spend one night in Eugene, OR, where my brother & wife live. From Eugene, it's only 4.5 hours to our new home in Poulsbo! This will be the closest my brother and I have lived to each other in over 40 years! He did a Ft. Lauderdale to Seattle move with his wife and two young sons many years ago, and that "begat" our Seattle family connection. His kids grew up, married, had their own families--and then after college Jill spread her wings and moved out near her cousins, got a job and married a Seattle guy. Now we'll be joining the Northwest clan, and soon Dax & Melissa will too!

This move is something we've wanted to do ever since visiting my brother and his family for the first time in the early 1980's when Jill was six and Dax four. We were still living in Illinois at the time, and we absolutely fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and planned to live there someday. We have spent nearly all our vacations out there, in all different seasons.

No, western WA is definitely not an area for everyone--it's quite chilly, damp and gloomy for much of the year, but that's just to make you appreciate the glorious short summer! :-) Jill called yesterday and said it was drizzly and in the 50s. That sounded heavenly to us! It's been so oppressively hot and humid down here this last month that we can't wait to get there!

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