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It does not hurt to at least call that website that helps seniors, @Axel Slingerland , they might be able to do a lot to get your car back for you and not cost money. I still think that the apartment owners are responsible and should have it brought back if it was towed illegally, but if they refuse, the Kern County people that help seniors and disabled people will have attorneys that can reach out and get the vehicle returned and the charges dismissed.
This is the only way I can see that you can solve the problem without spending a whole lot of money for one of your other options.
If they can’t help you, it has not cost you anything to try, and you can move forward with a different option.

When Bobby and I moved out here to Alabama from Idaho, we sold everything that could be sold and gave away/donated what could not be sold. We found an older motorhome and loaded that with everything that we could fit in it and drove (slowly) out to Alabama.
Once we got here, we sold the motorhome and bought a little pickup to drive, and found furniture at garage sales until we had enough to live with.
If you rent the u-haul, you still have to get a room at night, plus pay for the U-Haul, so renting the minivan at half the price is cheaper, and you could still take quite a bit of stuff .
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Thanks, this whole thing has me rather scatterbrained. But I got my daughter's attention by saying "Your inheritance is getting smaller by the day." I had to giggle after that. She's been doing her best to get her claws in what I have left, so it's actually kind of amusing. Specially since my son, who's been there every day for me, is going to get most of it anyway.

Yes, that is the right area. Edison is the same size of a town as Eureka, but because you cross the city limits on the west side and you're in Bakersfield, and Edison doesn't have a lot of stuff that Eureka does because of that, plus it's in the desert instead of the north coast, it's definitely different. In Humboldt County, Eureka is the big city. There's 25,000 people there, vs. 420,000 in Bakersfield. Kern County is the third largest county in California by size, but the population of the county is 775,000 than Humboldt.

Anyway, we discussed this situation last night and we have some choices.

1. Get the car back regardless of how much it will cost, and stay here.
2. Cut our losses and go home to Humboldt County.

As far as staying here goes, the website you posted will be very helpful. I never heard of it. Then there's a place called the Independent Living Center that could help my son when my check out time comes, specially if that happens before I have a backup plan.

After spending half of my life on the road, it's where I stayed the longest since I was a kid. So I will always see Humboldt County / Eureka as home. But there are valid reasons to vote against that, like the shortage of Docs. Here there's plenty of them, but there's a shortage of good Docs.

If we decide to go home, then the first question would be how to get there. Amtrak goes half way by train and half by bus, and that is the cheapest choice, but we would arrive with little more than the clothes we have on so in the end it actually wouldn't be. We would have to replace almost everything.

The second option, definitely the most expensive, is U-Haul at about $1,000, and we could keep most of our stuff. But It would take us a week to get there as I'm only good for driving about 100 miles a day. And I would have to hire people to load and unload the truck. That sort of thing is all but impossible in a wheelchair.

The best option is to rent a minivan. That would cost about $500 for a week in the end, with rental, gas, etc., but even though we could only keep the most important stuff, we could stop by Sequoia National Park on the way. Then any way we drive, we would need a room for at least half the nights, as neither of us can camp anymore, and we can't sleep in the car seats every night.

So in the end it would cost about the same no matter what we do.

Decisions, decisions... I need coffee. :coffee:
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The daughter and inheritance part was funny, although I do hope you can get a way to go. We have lived in some primitive situations in our close to 50 years now. Including a tent a couple time's, but thats ok I'm a professional camper.
We have a old van we could use for a camper if need be.
 
Well, they went to get the car, and I'm down $525, but they get there, my ever forgetful daughter doesn't have her key to the car, and she had to drive all the way back to Edison to get mine. I asked her, "How were you planning to have someone drive the car when you don't have the key?" I wish I could have seen her face, but we were on the phone. She thought her boy toy had it, he thought she had it, and my money is on she just lost it and didn't bother to check before they went there.

So she had her boy toy drive all the way back to my house to get the key, after he had already driven over here to get the money. Will he make it back over there before the close?

We'll see...

Edit: I forgot the forgetful...I still need coffee. :coffee:
 
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Ok, so we got the car back, the tank is still full (I just filled it last Sunday) and there doesn't appear (at first glance) to be any new damage. Between myself, Cindy and our son, we paid over $35,000 for it (not counting 3.5% interest on the car loan) and I can't just let it go when I can bail it out of no parking jail. We may still go back to Eureka... Someday.

So off we go to get groceries. For the Thursday taste of ironic humor, we get to the car and I realized I forgot my wallet and the car keys. Oh, well... After we go to Wally World, it's Mocha Time! 🧋

PS: Thanks for letting me rant. Which my son says is spelled whine. I just glared at him in mock anger and said, "Yeah, and your inheritance just got smaller too..."
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Ok, so we got the car back, the tank is still full (I just filled it last Sunday) and there doesn't appear (at first glance) to be any new damage. Between myself, Cindy and our son, we paid over $35,000 for it (not counting 3.5% interest on the car loan) and I can't just let it go when I can bail it out of no parking jail. We may still go back to Eureka... Someday.

So off we go to get groceries. For the Thursday taste of ironic humor, we get to the car and I realized I forgot my wallet and the car keys. Oh, well... After we go to Wally World, it's Mocha Time! 🧋

PS: Thanks for letting me rant. Which my son says is spelled whine. I just glared at him in mock anger and said, "Yeah, and your inheritance just got smaller too..."
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No, I am pretty sure that whine is served with cheese so unless that is the case, it’s a doggone rant.
 
Oh yeah, it was a rant... A $525 rant. And I felt entitled to it.

So things are back to normal. This coffee I'm having my second round of is so delizioso... After four days of no coffee, I was tempted to push myself backwards in my wheelchair the three miles to go to Walmart and back. (I can go three times faster going backwards.) But I thought better of it. I would be in so much pain afterwards I decided hot tea was a better choice. But I'm a happy coffee addict now. :coffee:

My son had a good suggestion. We should take a trip up to Sequoia, have some fun, and tell my daughter I spent all the money I saved up over the years on going to see the trees. That's one thing she always hated about living in Eureka. There are Redwood trees all over. Sequoia is the last major National Park in the west that I have never been to. So I like that idea...
 
Don't take it so hard, Marie. That's what politics is all about. That, and the "My Daddy can beat up your Daddy" mentality. Things were so much better when people tried to get along and work together, instead of each side always trying to make things better on their own but actually making them worse.

I've always thought that if you don't take all the political partisanship BS too seriously, everything would be fine, but the way things are going, "fine" may be a thing of the past. We may have to settle for "ok"...
 
Today I have spent some time catching up on work, or at least trying to catch up as best I can. Not sure if I have hurt the muscle in my arm or if it is a fibromyalgia flare-up up but I am in a lot of pain at the moment with my arm.
 
It is 0912 on Sunday and thus far I have managed to get out of bed, dress myself, make coffee and drink 5 cups of the black brew.
Note that I wrote that I got out of bed and made no reference about waking up which I feel won’t be accomplished for some time ergo I do doubt if I will actually be doing something of any significance or life changing for the time being.

Now, if one should believe that I am whiling away the morn, do remember that the human brain takes 200+ calories per day in order to function so in theory, just thinking and typing for right now is classified as burning calories hence working toward a caloric deficit which is crucial to a good dietary regimen.

( I am actually surprised at how well I can rationalize doing nothing as a promising attribute)
 
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Shortie said:
Today I have spent some time catching up on work, or at least trying to catch up as best I can. Not sure if I have hurt the muscle in my arm or if it is a fibromyalgia flare-up up but I am in a lot of pain at the moment with my arm.
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Sorry to read about the flare up Shortie. I do hope by now you are functioning much better !
 
Shortie said:
Today I have spent some time catching up on work, or at least trying to catch up as best I can. Not sure if I have hurt the muscle in my arm or if it is a fibromyalgia flare-up up but I am in a lot of pain at the moment with my arm.
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Hope you can find something to help with those flare-ups.
 
Today for first time in a couple weeks I pulled a few vines that had small trees bent over. Some housework but it is summer and already in the 90s here now., so not much outside work.
Plus, I'm feeling my age and ailments more lately.
 
Shortie said:
Not sure if I have hurt the muscle in my arm or if it is a fibromyalgia flare-up up but I am in a lot of pain at the moment with my arm.
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I know know how that is, all too well. I have Cervical Stenosis, and that causes pain that it's location in my upper body can be in my arms, neck or back. Since it comes from compression on nerves in my spinal cord, it moves from one day to the next depending on the position I end up in when I'm sleeping. So I never know where I am going to hurt when I wake up, or how bad it will be. But when Fibromyalgia flares up on top of that, oh my God... I just want to scream sometimes.
 
I went to the store to grab a few things and now i’m back home.
 
Bobby Cole said:
( I am actually surprised at how well I can rationalize doing nothing as a promising attribute)
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It's easy if you earned it. People asked how I could rationalize retiring at 40, and that was my answer. It's easy if you earned it.
 
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