Neil and I agreed there wasn't anything tying us down, so we may as well move as soon as possible. As he eloquently put it, "The world is out there waiting for us! Let's have an adventure."

I hired a moving company. Once you get past your twenties, you realize it is well worth it to hire some guys with a truck instead of doing the labor yourself, at least that's how I felt. We kept the things we needed short term in suitcases and the rest drove off to Riverside, where I'd arranged for a storage unit.

We had to drive separately, of course, so we could bring both...