Traveling from Calgary, Alberta, to Miami, Florida, in eleven days was an amazing experience. We left Calgary under the snow and arrived in Miami in what for us felt like summer.
Our furniture was very compact. Almost every piece was folding or easy to disassemble. Most of it, we had bought at IKEA. We had rented a U-Haul trailer with a capacity of around 5.5 cubic meters. The trailer was completely full and our car, a Nissan Rogue, too.
We made sure that things that would break if frozen were in the car, not in the trailer, and everything was in good shape when we arrived.
We had rented through the phone and the Internet an apartment in Miami-Dade County, but the apartment was not available before December 11th. As we had to leave our apartment in Calgary on November 30th, we had plenty of time, so we did not need to hurry. As we were two drivers, we could have gone in a week.
We stayed in cheap motels/hotels. We realized that every motel near the high ways has free Wireless, even the shitty ones. So, I was able to connect almost every day and work several hours in the evenings.
We visited Mount Rushmore and Wall Drug in South Dakota, the Arch in Saint Louis, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Tennessee.
For people of our ages, it was a little crazy to do this trip of 5,500 km in December, but if you never do some slightly crazy things, you are missing something in life!
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