On the Road to a New Life, Part 3

After about eight more hours of driving, we finally arrived in Virginia Beach.  The drive was mostly uneventful, although we left Charleston, WV a couple of hours behind schedule (sleep takes priority sometimes) and unfortunately didn’t have enough time to stop at Bel Air Market as suggested earlier.  But skipping it did mean that we had about half an hour of daylight for the whole family (Amy, Neko, and me) to check out our new house before dark.

Somewhat surprising to us, it was actually cleaner than when we looked at it in March.  All of the changes we requested were apparently done correctly (at least, aside from converting the two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong outlets), and the walls are all covered in primer, ready for us to get to work.

Tonight, we are in a hotel for hopefully the last night in a while.  Tomorrow, the electricity should be turned on, our mail that has been held for a month should be delivered, our new Dyson vacuum cleaner that we bought on Woot should arrive, we need to buy painting and basic household supplies, we need to call a contractor about several jobs (knocking out a wall, adding grounding to some of the plugs, moving the water lines for the washer/dryer from the kitchen to the utility room, and putting in new flooring over asbestos tiles), we need to set up an install for cable Internet access at home, and we need to set up our new local checking account.

In other words, a full day!