When I took a new job across the country, I had no choice but to drive my car on a long road trip.
If I wanted to have my car in my new home, my only other choice was to pay for shipping.
Honestly it’s cheaper to pay for gas and accommodations while driving it personally across the country. I couldn’t believe it cost more to have the thing shipped to me in a truck, but that’s what prices are like these days. Some people would have enjoyed the four day road trip, but I didn’t. I don’t like highway driving to begin with, even in places where I know the roads and have been on them for years. If you can imagine my discomfort with driving on the interstate in my hometown, you can’t begin to fathom how terrified I was on my cross-country road trip. I had to drive defensively for close to 10 hours each day. Then I had to find hotel accommodations along the way so I had a place to sleep at night. Unfortunately, I hate hotels to begin with and had quit staying in them years ago after a bad experience with a moldy air conditioner. I wish that my experiences on the road trip were better, but they weren’t. Most of the hotel rooms were poorly cleaned and smelled like spilt beer and pet dander. They also had terrible air conditioners, with one not working at all. I had to be moved to a different room that night after I had already settled into the first one. I was about to fall asleep when the air conditioner made a strange noise and then stopped working altogether.