Thank goodness for side mirrors! [Travel day]

When we wrestled the dresser into the car, it was a Scooby-Doo “Rutro” moment: the dresser is larger than we thought. It took some doing, but we managed to get the two youth chairs on top, as well as a table that had been my dad's. All of this is going to Massachusetts this week, but here we have a stopover at Clare's mom's in Ohio.

» The 68-year old dresser was my mom's when she was a teenager.
» It's being passed down to our younger daughter, whose dresser this was when she was still at home
» The youth chairs are what Clare stripped, stained, and refinished recently.

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[Maggiemae]

Not sure where you have been living but if its in the States there would be bound to travel long distances. Hope it all ends safely and you have help to unload!

[Thom Mitchell]

@maggiemae This day was a 510-mile (820km) drive. After four nights here, we had a 725-mile (1,166km) drive to visit with our kids & granddaughter … and then 1,200 miles (1,930km) home (over two days) after a good, long visit. This was last month.

[Maggiemae]

@rhoing Your children live so far away - almost as bad as three of ours - Japan, Canada, and England!

[Esther Rosenberg]

Boy, I can see an Seinfeld episode. How did your pack this! That’s lots of traveling. I hope you didn’t need to back up often.

[Danette Thompson]

I did something similar yesterday. My friend’s place is closing tomorrow. She’d already moved and had leftover furniture. Another friend often collects things for people in need, so 2 of us ladies had to wrestle a triple dresser into her van. It was heavy!

[Jane Anderson]

Where there's a will, there's a way!

[Thom Mitchell]

@dutchothotmailcom Backing up was done very, very carefully!

[Thom Mitchell]

@danette When we had this dresser professionally refinished 25ish years ago, the furniture-maker was really impressed with this piece. He said it's hard to find furniture this well-made anymore. As it was, I had to render glue-and-clamp repairs to both side panels of this dresser when we arrived in Massachusetts. Had to buy a couple new clamps to pull the boards together. However, I'm sure I still have only a fraction of Ben Napier's clamp collection!

[GaryW]

That vehicle may be full to the brim!!

[Thom Mitchell]

@thewatersphotos We left a couple smallish boxes with Mom's china at home because there literally wasn't a space to place them! Next visit-by-car!