Congrats on the new house! I'm sure you'll work it all out and in the end you have a nice cozy spot to keep the Challenger!
Good news / Bad news
Been scarce on the forum for a while. Meself and the missus started looking for our first house in September, with a goal of moving no later than Thanksgiving.
Looked at a dozen (or maybe it was 15) houses and despite not hearing angels sing (or "knowing the right one when you see it" as my sister in-law claimed), we found one that cuts our drive to visit our families in the Philly burbs down to an hour (instead of 2.5 hrs).
The sellers by luck were looking to move into their new house by Thanksgiving as well, so settlement went quick and we signed the mountain of paperwork about 11 days ago. Been moving our stuff ever since.
I got a nice sized garage out of the deal and my wife got the rest of the house
(She deserves it....I made her wait long enough and she figured that when I bought the Challenger, it was the death knell for any hopes of getting her own house).
So that's the good news.
What's the bad news? Well, I'm sure I'm gonna be completely strapped for the next couple of years so it's really going to limit my road trips to probably 1 per season. Local day trips like the Gettysburg cruise, Carlisle and the car show at Fairfield won't be an issue...it's gonna be our overnighters that suffer. I'm sure we'll have no shot at Talladega over Memorial Day, but Skyline Drive and Watkins Glen will be toss-ups. Guess it depends on how many nights I stay in hotels for work and how many rewards points I can rack up :4-dontknow:
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Looked at a dozen (or maybe it was 15) houses and despite not hearing angels sing (or "knowing the right one when you see it" as my sister in-law claimed), we found one that cuts our drive to visit our families in the Philly burbs down to an hour (instead of 2.5 hrs).
The sellers by luck were looking to move into their new house by Thanksgiving as well, so settlement went quick and we signed the mountain of paperwork about 11 days ago. Been moving our stuff ever since.
I got a nice sized garage out of the deal and my wife got the rest of the house
(She deserves it....I made her wait long enough and she figured that when I bought the Challenger, it was the death knell for any hopes of getting her own house).So that's the good news.
What's the bad news? Well, I'm sure I'm gonna be completely strapped for the next couple of years so it's really going to limit my road trips to probably 1 per season. Local day trips like the Gettysburg cruise, Carlisle and the car show at Fairfield won't be an issue...it's gonna be our overnighters that suffer. I'm sure we'll have no shot at Talladega over Memorial Day, but Skyline Drive and Watkins Glen will be toss-ups. Guess it depends on how many nights I stay in hotels for work and how many rewards points I can rack up :4-dontknow:
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congrats on the new home - as far as your trips go, we all have our crosses to bear
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