The Griswold Family Relocation & Protection Program
by Andrew JohnsonPrologue
Ed. Note: In 2004, after 20 years of living in Syracuse, NY, we decided to relocate the business and family to Reno, NV, to raise our own family around family. The Reno economy was booming, the sun was shining, and we were ready for an adventure. After our adoption journey, we figured we could muster the courage and perserverence to endure anything. Little did we know… This blog is a reprint of the daily email logs we sent to family and friends, chronicling our journey westward. The move not only served as a new start for us as a family, but also as a business. So it makes to begin this blog at the beginning, so to speak.
As most of you know, we had the Shotwell (our house in NY) sold once upon a time. Based on the first buyers’ offer and closing and work schedules, arrangements were made to move our household and iMed Design to Reno. One of the things we had to plan for was the move of the office equipment while still working up until the time we actually left town. The plan was to purchase a small utility trailer for the minimal office items we’d need, plus our clothes and such to make more room in the car so the ride would be as comfortable as possible. We would tow the trailer across country and hit the ground running in Reno with computers and video equipment if needed. We purchased a basic trailer. This purchase would shape the events of the first part of our trip in profound and expensive ways. When the first buyers walked out of the contract, plans were all blown to hell. New buyers stepped forward, schedules changed, work piled up but things were looking up again. But there was this trailer… Looking back, we should have bought a bigger, more durable trailer. But who knew? At the time, what we bought was what we needed. Now, we needed something larger.
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