jackofallgeeks | It was a nice idea at the time.

So in a couple months I'm moving back to California. I'm planning to be rooming with Steve again, hopefully back at Del Monte, but none of that can be sorted out until it gets closer to move-in time. So I don't yet have a solid destination which makes me uncomfortable, but I'm OK with it. I kind of know the area, I have friends back there, and while walking-distance would be preferable, I have a car (and a bike), so it's not as necessary as it had been.

My plan, though, had been to grab a few friends, split the price of a U-Haul, and roatrip out there. the cost of a U-Haul plus a flight home for everyone but me would run, I estimated, between $500-$700 a piece, mostly depending on flights. Add on the cost of food and hotels (I could eat the gas myself) and it starts looking like an expensive week-long trip, but still worth it (I think). It would be a fun twentysomething roadtrip across the country with good company and music, and allow me to get all my stuff (including my desk and couch and maybe even my bed) out to California with me.

I just checked U-Haul's website and got my price suspitions (mostly) confirmed. Unfortunately, my car doesn't have a trailer hitch, and though U-haul apparently offers a service to install one, I don't think I'm really interested in having a permanent hitch on my car. To make matters worse, I checked the posibility of renting a truck and towing my car behind that only to find that a Jetta has such low clearance underneath that they don't fit on the equipment that U-Haul has to tow cars.

So I can't take all my stuff in my car. And I can't hitch a trailer to her. And I can't hitch her to a truck. So I'm either leaving my stuff or my car, and either way the roadtripping seems less and less plausible.

Which I think would make me pretty sad if I weren't already in a mood. So that's a good thing(?), I guess.