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The ones that drive 4.5 hours northeast .. tool around for another few hours and THEN drive BACK another 4.5 hours??
Yea.. that happened. And believe me, I think I'd much rather make that trip in Alaska when they're on their 6 months of daylight because driving at night sucks. Big time!
Note to PennDot: The reflectors make things worse!
Over the weekend we went on line and found a few place upstate that might work out .. could work out .. was hoping would work out and so knowing that Tim would be literally bouncing off the walls if we didn't.. I told him we could take a ride out there early Monday morning .. sort of to get the wheels in motion and be pro-active.
We took all the back roads because you never know what you're going to come across and trust me, I have never seen such gorgeous countryside in my life.
After a number of bathroom stops and coffee refills, we finally reached Eagle's Mere, PA up in Sullivan County. Definitely a vacation spot for people who like to blow a lot of money on their vacations. Because the address was a "plaza", my bitch of a GSP wouldn't locate it so we basically ended up in the middle of town and drove around until we THOUGHT we found it and tried all the doors only to realize later that the doors that were locked actually belonged to a private house that was for sale.
Remember, we are the King and Queen of Idiocy!
We finally did find it and the women in the office couldn't have been more gracious and really helpful. They were more then excited to find out that we would be bringing good food to the area! The funniest was when one of the Realtors said, "... rental prices have skyrocketed. I remember when it was 3 - 4 hundred a month for a house and now it's more 800.00".
We were like, LADY!! WE'RE PAYING 1400.00 NOW!
She almost choked on her coffee.
So armed with a bunch of places to look out, we trekked out again. First landing in the center of Montoursville, The place is quintessential Norman Rockwell small town right outside the Williamsport Airport.
Driving around the town, everything was well kept and neat.. Just a cute little town surrounded by mountains and trees. The store we looked at was dead in the middle of the main street. Possibility.
We then decided to drive down Rt 87 and look at a little roadside restaurant that had been up for rent but because there were no bites, the front part had been rented to an attorney. The ad should have been taken down from the website but for some reason it wasn't .. the Realtor thought that maybe the owners would still want to rent the restaurant since there was interest in it so she gave us the name of the woman handling the property.
What she didn't give us.. and what we didn't realize at the time.. was the actual address.
So thinking that we'll call the following day, we just drove down Rt 87 and looked for it. The funny thing is, we found it!
And it's perfect.
It was exactly what Tim thought it was going to be and for what he wants to do with it... I'm not going to say that prayers were definitely answered.. but it looks like we're on the way to where we're suppose to be.
By this time is was almost 5 o'clock and I didn't care if he wanted to spend the $6 for the Turnpike Tolls or not, I was taking the Turnpike home and shaving an hour off the drive. Plus we were STARVING and you know, the King and Queen of Idiocy over here WITH A DELI ON THE FRONT PORCH didn't bring anything with us to eat!
Don't tell the kids but we grabbed Mickey D's before getting on the Turnpike!
We already have scouts out for a house and looks like we may have found two perfect ones .. each 500.00 lower then what we're paying now and a HELL of a lot nicer ... Nice enough to have my mother visit!! LOL!!
So it looks like things are moving in the right direction .. but keep those prayers and crossed fingers pointed our way .. this will be a HUGE move with no do-overs or oops room!
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