T minus 4 days

The major updates since Friday are:
- We drove from Colorado to Virginia
- We accepted an offer on our house
- We began our permanent house hunting

We took 4 days to drive 1900 miles and visit friends along the way.  The trip had some interesting moments, including:
- watching a cropduster fly alongside us low over farm crops then pull up at the last second to fly over a house
- seeing a car's engine fire by the side of the highway that had started a significant grass fire that was getting fanned by strong winds
- in Maryland on highway 68 east at exit 14, seeing the attractions sign that had a question mark on it

I had a great time on the trip - it was really fun to see so much of the country by car. It did seem odd that over the entire trip, I think I saw far more entire car front bumpers on the side of the road than hubcaps.

We checked into the Oakwood Falls Church complex last night and it's quite nice. Our UAB hasn't arrived yet, but that's fine as it took many trips to unload our cars. We brought WAAAAYHAYYYYHAAYYYYYYY too much stuff. It seems like we barely scratched the surface with our downsizing efforts. We might look like hoarders, but really we're just trying to not be wasteful and throw things out. Hmmm, now that I think about it, that's probably classic hoarder thinking. It's apparently a fine line between being efficient and a hoarder (as well as between clever and stupid). 

Our entire specialist class (the 127th) has started getting email tips from volunteers from the previous class, which is very helpful - I really appreciate the time they're taking to reach out to us noobs. For example, they're suggesting that we keep hard copies of every form we've submitted in case someone needs it. While this is a lot of forms, this isn't hard to do with an adequately-sized Trapper Keeper. Some of my form hard copies are already in HHE so that's not ideal, but I scanned every form I signed so I could reprint them if necessary. 

Yesterday we visited an apartment complex looking at places to buy. 11 to be precise. Today we're going to call and visit some places to rent. Hopefully the answer will present itself soon.

(This post written while listening to Talking Heads Born Under Punches.)