The Zereps

Well… it’s that time again… packing time!  We’ve been up to our ears in alligators lately finishing up last minute things for our move to Colorado–canceling utilities, cleaning the house, ‘showing’ the house to new potential tenants, selling all of our furniture on craigslist, packing all of our personal belongings into boxes, and all that other fun stuff that goes along with moving to a different state.

We’ve lived on the west coasts… we’ve lived north of the border… we’ve lived on the east coast… and now it’s time to settle down in the midwest, so here’s hoping we like it out there enough to stay longer than a year or two.

Once again, we’re going to be driving cross-country in a rental car. But since it’s winter, we’re not taking any chances; we’re paying extra to rent a 4WD vehicle from Hertz, which I will be picking up this afternoon. We’re also going to stock the car up with tons of food and water, a camp stove, blankets, a portable air-compressor/battery jumpstart, multiple flashlights, kitty litter (yes, that’s right–for extra traction in the snow,) 2 laptops, and all sorts of other goodies. We’ll have 3 cell phones with us and a plethora of other wireless technologies to aid us on our trip.
My company was generous to let me borrow one of their Verizon BroadbandAccess air cards, so we should have high-speed wireless internet in the car whenever we’re near a populous area, and at least dial-up speed for the remainder of the journey. Like our last big haul, you can expect daily updates from as as to what we’ve been up to that day, with plenty of pictures AND I’m going to be signing up or a service called Perdiemco that is going to upload (in almost real-time) coordinates from our in-car GPS system that will allow select people to track our journey online as we go along using the site’s web-based google maps API tracking system (so you’ll always know exactly where we are!) Email me if you want the password, and as soon as I hook that up I’ll send the information to you. We’re traveling on major highways the whole way out there, so we should have at least some sort of internet coverage the whole way, so the trip-tracker should be pretty continuous.
That’s all for now… today’s going to be a hectic day, so we probably wont update again until we’re somewhere on the road.. see you then!

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