Wow! What an intense rest of the trip. We drove from Dallas straight through to North Carolina. It rained- a lot. It was windy- a lot. Jon drove the first tank which took us from Dallas into Louisiana. I took over from Louisiana into Mississippi. Jon took over again from Mississippi to Alabama. I drove from Alabama into Georgia. When that tank was done Jon drove the rest of the way from Georgia, through South Carolina and into North Carolina. We got into North Carolina at 7:30 am. We first went to a storage unit place. While Jon was finishing up the paper work a moving company was leaving the storage area and asked if we would need help unloading the truck. They weren't going to go through their company so they were only going to charge us $100. They unloaded our truck with us and Jon gave them $120.
From there we put gas in the truck and then dropped it off at Penske. We grabbed a quick lunch from Burger King and met up with Steve, the realtor. We looked at four houses. We picked out a first and second choice of those two. The first choice has an amazing garage that could fit all four bikes, my car, tools, a fridge, and still have room to make a little man cave. The kitchen made me happy. It's an L-shaped kitchen with great counter space and lots of cabinet space. There is a little laundry room that goes into the garage. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms, an area for dining, a small living room (which is the only downside to the house), a nice area for a grill, and a good amount of yard space. Oh, and lots of closet space. It's 1259 square feet. The only appliances we would need to get are a washer and a dryer. The asking price currently is $159,900. Not too shabby for a starter home! We're hoping to get the ball rolling on this house. It's been on the market for 95 days or something, so maybe we'll be able to get it.
After house hunting we called up an apartment rental place. They have a fully furnished 2 bedroom/1.5 bathroom condo on the beach with all utilities except for internet included going for $1,050 a month. That will work out for us until we get a house. We then went back to the storage unit place to see if they knew of any hotels near by. Eight phone calls later we managed to snag the last room at a Holiday Inn. Lucky us.
As if we didn't do enough, we had to go to base to get Jon's truck. He forgot to disconnect the batteries (yea- there are two of them!) so the truck was deader than dead. Of course, now is the time it decides to pour. Frank tried to jump the truck, but his little Grand Cherokee couldn't do the job. While Jon tried to figure things out I took Frank to formation. When we were heading back to Jon after formation was done Frank asked a guy who had a Diesel Ford if he wouldn't mind helping Jon out. The guy followed us there and then Frank took his Jeep and left. It took a while, but the guys got the truck up and running.
After that whole ordeal we went BACK to the storage unit to get a few things, then went to a place called Rick's to get dinner. We brought dinner back to the hotel, ate, showered (because being rained on all night just wasn't enough water on us), and then got ready for bed.
Tomorrow will be filled with Jon dealing with work things and me dealing with the apartment thing. Fun fun.
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