The Trip to New York City: Part 2

September 1st:
Normally a five hour trip to NYC from Bethesda MD, it took us eight hours because of multiple accidents and traffic. When we arrived to Manhattan we drove right over it via George Washington Bridge and ended up in the Bronx right across the Harlem River from where our new apartment was. We called Jose and had him Google map our location and help us get home to Harlem (north Manhattan) since we did not have a good map. We arrived at 8pm.

Then the nightmare began…..it took us nine hours to unload the truck. We were unloading until 5am and woke up at 9am to finish unloading. We return the truck at 11:32am, exactly the time it was due clearing us of any fees. The rental guy had never seen that before. When we got to our apartment, we realized that we had too much stuff for a studio less than 300 square feet; it is a life size game of Tetris. We unpacked almost all of our boxes in two days, but we were finally moved in after three months after we donated some stuff and purchased things to make our apartment more habitable. After we got the bikes stands to get all five bikes off the floor, we were able to setup the art easel so Andrea could paint.