Benjamin Clark

My dad may have been kidding around when he said this, but it found the mark: which will ultimately give me the most stress, the application/acceptance process or moving to Indiana?

The truck has been rented. I'll be hauling all my belongings in a 15' Penske rental truck, with a car carrier for my pickup. I'll be leaving Tallahassee the morning of August 20th, after having moved out of my apartment Friday the 19th. This will put me in Bloomington sometime midday Sunday, allowing myself one full day of travel on Saturday and any additional time early on Sunday.

Of course, if this whole "acceptance thing" turns out to be a ill-planned hoax, I can cancel these plans without penalty .. then go work as a web developer for the rest of my life. :P

Some of you who know how much stuff I have may be wondering, can I fit all my belongings in a 14'6"x7'4"x6'2" space. The answer is, yes, or it doesn't come with me. I'll be measuring and planning over the next couple of months, and I'll put up a list of things I'd theoretically sell at some sort of moving sale/garage sale type of event, had I the desire to haggle over broken dishware with perfect strangers (who will most likely smell like the kind of strangers who haggle over broken dishware at some poor grad student's apartment early on a Sunday morning).

I enjoy planning these sorts of things. I'm also looking forward to planning the route. I'll need to make sure I have a gas station every 150 miles, because I'll be earning 6-7 mpg at best (it's not diesel). I need to make sure that the route has no difficult manuvers, since I'll be driving the longest rig I've ever driven this side of sliced bread.

Right now, Google is telling me to go up through Georgia and take I-75 to I-24 to I-65. MapQuest tells me the route I went last time, which was through Alabama, basically I-65 the whole way up. The Alabama route is 20 or so miles shorter, so I'm confused why there's any discrepancy at all.