June 23rd

A few days before I left Santa Cruz, I took a last walk up and down the pier at the Boardwalk.

This was to be my last peaceful indulgence before the almost 72-hour-long packing and moving marathon that took place clear up to the end of June 23rd (actually about 2am on the 24th, but who’s counting).

At about 5pm on the 23rd, I used the #20 and #71 buses to get my final load to my somewhat oversized storage unit. On a weekday, it would be about a 2 1/2 hour round-trip, but this was Saturday so it took about 4 hours.

If I had timed it a bit better, I could have gotten a more conveniently located (and sized) unit. I wanted a 4X3 or so, but this 5X5 unit was the last one left in all of Santa Cruz below the size of 10X17 by about June 9th. Let that be a lesson to everyone to book ’em early. Having a unit that’s too big does have the one advantage that I don’t have to be organized about packing it though, as you can see.

I knew I had to leave at about 6am, so I decided to take a 3 hour nap at around 2am so I’d have an hour to do last minute stuff before I left. That brings us to my next post (coming soon).