Pagosa Plan B

Welp, imagine our disappointment when the truck for our Pagosa move was a size too small and we were left with over 15 large boxes with no ride to the ranch. 

The company sent another truck and agreed to send it in a separate shipment, but those items wouldn't arrive for a few weeks. We've got Nick and three friends with us this week to help with the move and putting all the furniture -- and gym equipment -- together. We had to figure out how to get everything there now.

Immediately Dan and I started thinking of solutions. From Dan renting a U-Haul and Nick, friends and I flying, to Nick's idea of driving our truck with his friends and Dan and I could fly. (He really wanted the chance to road trip with friends, but not sure I'm ready for that yet, especially with an overfull truckbed. This week we'd been talking about replacing our LandCruiser down there with a newer, more reliable Sequoia--maybe buying one in Durango, and so our little minds got to work figuring out a plan.

On the way home from his meeting, that afternoon, Dan stopped by a dealership, sat in a Sequoia for sale for two minutes to make sure it wasn't a smoker car and on the way home, called the dealership and bought it.

I made a U-Haul reservation -- Dan would drive it and I would drive the new car with Nick and friends. 

Instead of flying we were making a road trip.

Twelve hours later, early in the morning Dan nudged me awake with a new plan. 

Rent a U-Haul trailer instead of a truck. The Sequoia could pull it and we could all drive together.

Why hadn't we thought of that before?

By 9:00 a.m. we were in North Salt Lake (which I always believed to be just a description of the North side of the city. It's actually its own city and own grid system) at the Moving Storage company to pick up what didn't fit from yesterday. We loaded it into the truck and Lexus and brought it home. Then back downtown to test drive the Sequoia and finish the purchase. Then to Murray where Dan picked up the trailer and home where we unloaded the truck and Lexus into the U-Haul.

And then, we thought of a million other things to take since now we had a trailer. 

A trip to Costco for food, ladders and tools from the garage, various odds and ends. 

Home just in time to go out to dinner and celebrate Marty's 25th birthday.

To top it off, Kershaw rolled in poop.