Moving Cross Country

Are you moving cross country?  What a headache!  When I moved cross country, it was during the winter and I was towing my car behind the big Penske moving truck I rented.  It was the first week of January and I was moving from Texas to New England.

The drive through most of the states went well besides some white-knuckle driving when I was going through construction and I old had an inch on the left of me by a wall and an inch to the right of me by other cards.  (That lasted about 40 miles – I was a wreck!)

But when I got into the mountains of Pennsylvania, that’s when the fun started.  The wind was blowing the renal truck all over the highway.  My car that I was towing behind me would shift from one side to the next.  And then the blinding snow came.  Almost out of nowwhere blizzard-like conditions rolled in.  I thought about pulling over but feared that the moving truck wouldn’t be able to get traction if I stopped trying to go up hill.

When we reached the top of one mountain, you couldn’t see 5 feet in front of you.  I had the flashers on and was going about one mile an hour.  Another moving truck (also a Penske moving truck) passed me on the right and scared the heck out of me.  I didn’t see him coming.

And within about a minute later, the snow stopped and there was blue sky.  The rest of the ride at that point went well, but I’ll never forget the white-knuckle road construction battle or the 10-15 minute blizzard that made moving cross country a little hairy at times.

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