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k2o4 United States. Nov 30 2009 01:34. Posts 4803 | | |
Spent all day today moving - insane how my entire life fits into the back of a uhaul... and a small one too, haha.
Was the biggest move I've ever made as I spent most of my "independent" life floating from apartment to apartment with just my bed, desk, computer and clothes. The desk was just a folding table so I could fit everything except the bed in my car, and I'd just borrow a friends truck to move the bed. This was my first uhaul experience and it went quite well.
I've been living in a 2 bedroom townhouse with my girl for the past year and a half. It was pretty big with a living room, separate kitchen with a small dining area, and bathroom on the first floor. The second floor had a full bathroom and 2 well sized rooms, one which we used for my "poker office". Then the basement had a lot of space and a washer/dryer. All for $625 a month. Sick value. I posted pics of it in a past blog.
The only "bad" thing was the thin walls and the rowdy neighbors. At $625 a month you can imagine the type of people we got living near us. Cops were called to our townhouses quite often and there were a lot of interesting altercations that went on. But also a lot of bad vibes - the first neighbors we had fought like crazy and the girl had to call the cops on the guy quite a bit. If they weren't fighting the guy was having never ending parties but the parties were just a bunch of 20 something guys who didn't graduate HS and just sat around drinking, smoking and screaming about the good old days.
We didn't move out cause of the neighbors though - we moved out due to travel. Asian travel. Yessiree bob. See in 2 weeks we're starting the "Family Xmas tour", an annual occurrence. We fly to Washington DC for a week and then Michigan for another week to visit family on both sides. We'll get back at the end of the month and then in mid January we fly to Thailand for a backpacking journey into Cambodia and maybe Laos, Vietnam and Burma.
So since we're not gonna be around much before we leave we figured it's best to move out now and save money on rent by crashing at my dads place for a bit. 2 weeks here, 2 weeks on the Xmas tour, then 2 more weeks before we head out on our Asian adventure. Seems like a really short amount of time left in the USA to me but I'm looking forward to every second of the next few months.
We plan to be in Asia for at least 1 month, at most 5 months. After that we'll come back to CO and find a new place and jobs and so on. Hopefully I'll be able to just grind and find a part time thing like I was doing before. The part time gig is nice for the mental stability of knowing money is coming in even if I have a downswing month, but it also helps deal with that feeling of not contributing to the world and just being alone, isolated and hermitish in my room staring at a computer all day by myself. Interacting with other humans face to face is good.
So I'm really tired and for some reason that has lead me to write a longer blog than I intended, cause my mind keeps wandering. The point I was trying to make is that we moved and I'm exhausted. I wanted to play poker but I don't let myself play tired anymore, so I guess this ranting blog will have to do.
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joLin United States. Nov 30 2009 02:00. Posts 3818 | | |
sounds like a blast, have fun man. |
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sniderstyle United States. Nov 30 2009 02:05. Posts 2046 | | |
WHen you take an extended trip into a different country, ie several months, what kind of papers do you need? Can you just use your passport and stay indefintitely? Or do you just get deported after a certain amount of time
I"ve been thinking about doing an extended trip to euro |
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dahornnn United Kingdom. Nov 30 2009 02:08. Posts 693 | | | |
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k2o4 United States. Nov 30 2009 02:08. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On November 30 2009 01:05 sniderstyle wrote:
WHen you take an extended trip into a different country, ie several months, what kind of papers do you need? Can you just use your passport and stay indefintitely? Or do you just get deported after a certain amount of time
I"ve been thinking about doing an extended trip to euro |
really depends on how long you stay and how many roots you put down. I'm just moving from place to place, probably not in any 1 country longer than a month. Most countries have a certain amount of time you can be in the country as a tourist. Once that time is up, if you leave the country for a bit (at least 24 hrs, often like 72 hrs) then you can come back and it resets. Some countries won't let you in without a visa first, but many many countries will let you just show up with a USA passport and you're set. |
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Timonga United States. Nov 30 2009 02:25. Posts 1074 | | |
Great read. Stay safe and have fun. |
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lazymej Canada. Nov 30 2009 02:43. Posts 2897 | | |
your pics of your old apartment in your previous blog post don't work anymore fyi |
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k2o4 United States. Nov 30 2009 12:20. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On November 30 2009 01:43 lazymej wrote:
your pics of your old apartment in your previous blog post don't work anymore fyi |
they work for me, but 1 of em got messed up somehow, not sure |
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thewh00sel  United States. Nov 30 2009 13:30. Posts 2734 | | |
wait, so you're leaving the perfectly good united states to travel around a bunch of poor countries? That sounds awful. The pics better be good! |
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k2o4 United States. Nov 30 2009 23:51. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On November 30 2009 12:30 thewh00sel wrote:
wait, so you're leaving the perfectly good united states to travel around a bunch of poor countries? That sounds awful. The pics better be good! |
Traveling is such freedom, especially in poor countries where you become nice and rich (for those of us who aren't already balling) |
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