Osso and Pacco move to New Mexico

Thanks, kiddo.... It won't be perfect, heh. Ok would be good. I can happy it up.

osso, dear. I am very happy for you. I know how difficult it is to move. I still have things in my garage that are sitting still.

Perhaps, one day, I can visit dys and Di. <smile>

We'll keep candles in our windows...

and I'll follow the glow, Osso. <smile>

They need to build on.

My collection of gothic memorabilia will fill three large rooms.

Ahem, some of us plan our own abodes...

Oh, sweet Osso!

It is finally happening for you after all this time and planning! You have no idea how happy I am for you! This is great news, indeed!

When Sir J moved me from Santa Rosa to Oklahoma City, it took us 3 days and we both were exhausted! I am SO glad, especially with your night vision that you are not going to push it, but just take each day as it comes and stop for the night when you need to. I feel much better about that plan!

Are Diane and Dys about the most wonderful of folks or what? I know you will find a splendid Osso and Pacco home that will just right for the two of you in short measure. I love your comment about being able to "happy it up" no matter what. It is exactly that attitude that makes a house a real home.

As Eva also mentioned, Oklahoma isn't very far from Albuquerque! Maybe at some point she and I could team up on a road trip to come and see you all. God knows, I would love that! Eva?

Osso, the best of times is yet to come for you, dear friend. Oh! Happy day!!

That would be lovely! Give me a month or two to get out of escrow number two. After that I don't care when, as you can always visit the "before" abode.

Also, you sounded on another thread as sort of stressed. None of my business but hope you are fine.

Wow, big changes for Osso!

Best wishes on your move, Osso. The details will all work out and you'll be settled in before you know it (crossing fingers).

Diane says that "luckily" Pacco and Sally are of the opposite sex. How disgusting.
Dys, you said that "[[you] have no friends (other than the Bean)." Were you referring to me?

JLN, Bean is Shewolf's lovely daughter. She and Dys are pals.

Thanks, Mac. I was a bit offended, because I think I told Dys to refer to me as the Supreme Bean (that's what I called Joanne Dorel's doggy).

Regarding your night vision problem, Osso--and pardon my presumption-- I'm sure you will plan to stop driving each day at least by 5 p.m. If you start each morning--after a hearty breakfast--by 7 a.m. (and take with you a thermos of coffee?), that'll give you 10 hours each day. Don't you think that two hours of rest would be adviseable? That would leave you with 8 hours of driving each day. That's too long for me. I used to drive through Mexico 12 to 14 hours almost straight. Can't imagine that now. But if you determine to enjoy each moment of the trip, that'll help.
JLN

Wellllllll.. I plan to stop more like 3:15, 3:30. No kidding, I cannot be caught even in twilight. I have certain Salinas memories, where I kept skipping places to get to one more town and then and then and then it started pouring with darkened sky and ...

I wildly lurched across an intersection and into the notellmotel place where they had to bring me a light bulb, talk about low rent, and I didn't even try to walk out to dinner. I remember having some totally weird thing like a bag of peanuts and water. Cheap though.

Besides, this time I have the inimitible dog. Dogs can rack up serious charges, if they take them at all. I've got a list of no charge or 5 - 10 dollar charge places on the route. Girl plans to settle down in plenty of time.

Rest? I'll just snooze while I drive...

I know you do, osso, but my friends and critters and gus and I were thinking of a more permanent arrangement.

Picturing this..
perhaps a freeway extension?

You drive very carefully, my girl! And stop & sleep ... often! This is your Auntie Olga speaking! I don't want to be up all night worrying, worrying, worrying ....

Osso, good. If you start out at 7 a.m. and stop at 3 p.m., that's a hefty 8 hours, and with two hours of break time that's still a hefty 6 hours of driving. When I drive to L.A., I stop (after only three hours driving) in Blythe, Calif, and then the next day do four hours to L.A.. Since there is no rush (being retired) that's enough. My only concern is this race with the movers. How does THAT work? If they get there before you, does someone in Albuquerque accept the shipment and check to see that everything is there? Heaven forbid that it should Dys. He's have a great garage sale.
Or do they just deliver everything, if you're not there, to the storage facility that you've hired?
I'm just genuinely curious about the mechanism of this process; I know you have it all under control. I don't want to sound like a worry wort--like auntie Olga.

Who said I have it under control? I and we are contacting moving storage places as we speak. Turns out an eighteen wheeler has to be able to deliver inside the facility... yes, someone has to key open the gates, preferably me. I am trying not to put that on D & D. The moving truck will delay at least some. We'll see.

I don't have a change of address for forwarding mail until I have the storage facility, because I have to send my books to the nearest post office, and then all forwarded mail to that P.O. Box.

Thanks for the info that it is three hours to Blythe and 4 to LA. Hmmm (she predicts 2 1/2 days from LA, that I can't quite do it in 2, though maybe.) It's 7 hours from Tuscon...
not sure I can make Tuscon from LA in one day or not. Whatever.

Now, are you less worried? Che sera.

Yeah, I'm not worried, only about your worrying. Yes, it's a 7 hour jaunt from L.A. to Phoenix, then another 2 hours on Highway 10 southeast to Tucson on the way to Las Cruces, New Mexico. There, of course, you take Highway 25 up to Albuquerque. But I'm sure that's not news.
I'll be in the rider's seat with you, so, for the sake of my spirit, drive mindfully.

OK, Boss!