3 Days of Apartment Hunting

I'm excited and nervous. After 3 days of searching, we have managed to secure housing. It's great in every imaginable way. It's in a great neighborhood, low deposit and a month to month lease. We didn't even have to do anything illegal to get it!

We move in this Friday.

Before we get to Friday though, we have to get through Thursday's mayhem of getting the rest of our things from the old apartment in Oakland down to socal. We are doing back to back drives in a badass rental pickup truck. The drive will be safe and cushy.

We leave at 3am. We should be in Oakland around 11am. Load the truck up, leave the rest of the things we don't need on the side of the road and vamos! Back to southern Cali. Oh there is the business of returning the cable box/modem to Comcast before we leave the bay area. But that's on the way.

The apt we found is small. We probably won't be able to keep the bicycles indoors. But we also won't need to. They'll get locked up outside and be fine. This is a new concept to us, the lack of bike theft.

We'll have all the basics to start sleeping at the new place immediately. We'll only really need to get a sofa at some point, and I'm sure it won't be a used one we find in the hallway like at the Oakland apartment.

I am supposed to get up in 3.5 hours. I won't be driving the way up though so I can sleep on the drive if I'd like to.