Steps

I have walked up these steps

Moving to Albuquerque is a project. Some of the milestones in that project are under our control - getting the house ready to sell - and some of them are not completely controllable - getting someone to buy it for the price we want, for example. Here is the plan and some of the biggest potential obstacles:

We actually passed a big step today, when Lucas was accepted for an apartment. We really did not want to put the house on the market with him staying here, because we want to take some of his things out to show the room, and because he sleeps during the day, which makes it difficult to find times to show the house. His bedroom is very small, and we need to reduce the amount of furniture in it as much as we can. We may even empty the room completely.

Once he is out, we can list the house. The realtors will pay for a thorough cleaning, we stage the house the best we can, then we have a picture day, then we list.

Then we cross our fingers and hope someone wants it. It's a nice house in a good location.

Assuming it sells, the next thing is the home inspection. This one is a little out of our control, because you never know what they may find. Worst case, we pay some money and fix any problems.

Then we move. Our thought is to have a Pod delivered, and we can fill it ourselves. We cannot, however, move the piano, even from the house to the driveway, without piano movers, so that will be the first thing packed. Then, worst case, we fill up one Pod and have to get a second one. The Pod(s) go(es) off to storage.

The plan, because there is always a plan, is to get an Airbnb in New Mexico, someplace Jackie can do her work. From there, we can look for houses. Jackie already has picked out some possible places, so I do not expect that part will be too difficult.

I am not looking forward to changing our mailing addresses twice. So very many different places to notify. For the Airbnb, I think we have to get a post office box until we find a permanent home.

Once we find a new place, we have the Pod(s) delivered, empty it/them out except the piano, then call the piano movers. Once the piano is installed, I think the move is done.

If all goes well, we may move out in July, move into a new place September-ish.

I will hit my new, more modest walking goal of 270,000 steps this month, but not until tomorrow. As of now, I have walked 264,000 steps in April, and Arlo is whining at me to do a few thousand more. Thursday, I will finally get to the halfway point of this trip, 279 miles into Nebraska.