- Take care of clients. Check.
- Sell office. Check. (Thanks to Tom Jacobs at CBRE.)
- Sell house. Check. (Thanks to Ben Walter at My Home Group.)
- Obtain enough dog medicine to start a medium-sized veterinary pharmacy “just in case.” Check.
- Sell truck. Check.
- Load two large storage units like Fibber McGee’s closet. Check.
Plus a zillion other things. Somehow we jammed forward and are on our way. Over the past month or so we managed to have a final meal or visit with many old and dear friends, culminating with The Last Supper with George and Erin Cravens at their home. With literally a couple of hours left to get out of the house this morning, Jim Blomo provided invaluable help finishing up. We choose to believe he did it because he’s a great guy rather than because he wants us gone.
In the way of Tom and Ma Joad, we packed up our lives and headed across the country in search of a different life. (The dogs are in the car but refused to pose, probably to retaliate for us steadily removing all of the soft or fuzzy surfaces from the house until nothing was left but wood floors.)
Because we’ve been working from before dawn until late at night the past few days, we both were exhausted as we headed east today. Only one of us, however, mistakenly took Super-Duty NyQuil at 3 in the afternoon, so the trip to El Paso was painfully long only for the other three.
The newsworthy thing about today is that we actually jumped off the proverbial cliff. This isn’t just a weird dream that will end with us waking up 2,000 miles from Shannon and Mallory and heading off to our offices as usual. There really is a hotel in El Paso that will be surprised tomorrow to find a few black dog hairs on the white comforter.
We anticipate nothing exciting as we travel to Charleston S.C. and then up to D.C., where we’ll meet Misty Pearl in slip E18 at The Yards Marina on Monday.