20 weeks down to go?
Monday, January 14th, 2008Por el lado positivo esto me va a dar más de semanas más de sueldo que bastante que lo necesitamos.
De todas formas yo voy a seguir contando como si me fuera en dos semanas.
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21 weeks left – The Budget
Sunday, January 6th, 2008The most important things I need to budget for are:
- Car Shipping – $1200 (actually, its $950 but I need to pay some fines before I’m able to send it)
- Send our crap (computers, game consoles, some other things) – I guess it will be less than the car since they bill by space taken, not weight, so I HOPE it will be like $500 to $800 for six boxes, give or take, I will know better next month when I have the real inventory plus an estimate by the company of how much it will cost. If it is more than that then we just send the computers and consoles.
- Luggage – 4 bags – $??? I guess that will be around $50 ea
- Plane Tickets – $232 for two tickets, we need to go before May 15 otherwise the price will skyrocket.
- Road trip from
Florida toTexas . I am estimating $500, we are going to stay on cheap hotels and eat fast food, nothing fancy. I will have to fill the tank every 250 miles, and it’s a 1116M trip so that means I will have to refuel five to six times, at $25 per fill that’s around $125, plus tax. - Apartment Rent – This one will have to be secured before we put a foot on the plane, I have scouted several places and the rent in the area for what we are looking for is around $600, plus utilities activation and I don’t know how much that is in Texas.
Grand total we need for the trip $3532
Ouch!
22 weeks to escape …
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
… and four months down to go.
The plan is to drive from Orlando, FL to Plano, TX and since we don’t know shit about driving in the US we bought a cute little TomTom. I already made the route and its going to take us around 20 hours, so that will be like two or three days travel because there is no way in hell we are driving that much time non stop. The most awesome thing about this little device is that it has gas stations, restaurants, hotels, even view points with its phone numbers so we should be ok. It would be nice if it had “redneck areas” so we could avoid those, but that would be too much, isn’t it?
Dallas
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