Moving...Slowly....Very Slowly.

So we as we arrived in South Bend we considered the extensive list of loose ends to tie up in the coming five days before we departed in a moving truck for New Haven and Connecticut. Moving is a horrendous task, and we now fully appreciate exactly why movers can charge whatever prices they like. As we moved through the list we made the most of seeing some friends for the last time for awhile, sharing good food and some drinks and contemplating how quickly the past four years has gone in many ways.

As the moving day neared it was time to pick up the truck and begin to pack our lives into the 12 by 10 foot space sitting on four wheels. In the midst of 95 degree weather and high humidity we began to load everything in such a way that a 15 hour journey would not shift it at all….this of course would have been easier with ropes for instance…or boxes….or really any actual packing material. Drenched in sweat the truck began to fill, the illusion of being a minimalist quickly disappearing (it’s all Jen’s stuff of course). With a final wave we were off though – having successfully loaded our lives and the dog into a truck and off on the road for the 16 hour drive to New Haven.

With wonderful irony it was 95 degrees and just as humid in New Haven as began to madly unload the truck into the my third floor apartment, with the added thrill of impending thunderstorms coming in the afternoon. As the apartment began to fill, with Gus tied to the truck greeting passers by, and Jen and I quickly nearing a level of dehydration that would require medical attention – we finally reached the end…carrying the final piece of furniture into the foyer as the heavens opened.

With two days to spend in New Haven we made our way around the Yale campus, marveling at the myriad of ways in which a person can appear pretentious, and then out to dinner with some friends to sample the famous/infamous mashed potato pizza (actually damn good). Then we locked the apartment, threw Gus in the back of the car and set our sights on Canada and Niagara Falls…on the road again for the next few weeks as we make our way back across the country.

Pictured: Minimilist eh?, Gus continues his travels, Gus after a long day of moving, my new home for the coming year, and my new home for the coming year.