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Up and Coming
July 17, 2017
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Moving - Canada Style

I'm moving from the east to the west coast of Canada.  Google tells me it's a 71 hour journey, covering more than 6700km across one of the most amazing countries on the planet.  To those of you south of the border, it's like driving from Bangor Maine to Seattle, only with Lake Superior in the way.  

So yeah, it's a long drive.

What's excellent is that I'm doing this trip on Canada's 150th birthday.
The not so excellent part is that I've done this drive once already - in the opposite direction 4 years ago.

Movers come tomorrow and we start the drive on Friday.  Apologies if I'm away from the forum for the next few weeks.  
Atmos73 has happily agreed to fill in with more positive messages and corrections of everyone's spelling for me.

Edit: sorry, this was meant for off-topic.  Could a mod do me a favour and move it there for me?

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    ZoomieAuthor
    Up and Coming
    August 2, 2017
    I had 13 days booked off work.  I spent a few days visiting my family and we've been in BC visiting her family for the past two.  Tomorrow we're on our final travel day.  

    Google said it was 72 hours of driving (not counting stops for fuel and food).  We booked hotels the day before because were were never really sure whether the car would hold up, or if we'd hit really good (or bad) weather and go farther (or less far) on a given day.  We had a 7 hour driving day and we also had a 15 hour day (including stops).  I'm pretty used to long trips and long days with my job, but we also had a dog with us.  She rides like a champ, but there's still a breaking point where you don't want to sit in a car all day.

    Tomorrow we should arrive at our destination and the next few days are signing final papers and taking possession. I should be excited but at this point I'm just tired and want it all done. I'll save excitement for that first night we have our bed assembled and our espresso machine plugged in.  :)
    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke
    Shadowmask72
    Shadowmask72
    Honored Contributor
    August 2, 2017
    So how much do you think this cost you in total, you can PM me if you don't want to post publicly. I very much want to do a NA coast to coast journey in my lifetime.
    System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
    ZoomieAuthor
    Up and Coming
    August 3, 2017
    I'll pm you about details. I'm a bit of a special case on this particular trip but I've done it in both directions now so I can likely help answer some of your questions.

    Might be a day or three until I can put a message together - things are hectic on account of the fact we're just about to move into the new digs.
    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke
    Shadowmask72
    Shadowmask72
    Honored Contributor
    April 26, 2018
    Well it's likely I am going to be doing NYC to LA drive next year. Seeing as this thread has been bumped.
    System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
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