How Not To make a cross-country move

1. If you own three coffee pots that take two different kinds of filters, it does very little good if the filters are packed in separate boxes from the pots. It's a guarantee that you'll find filters for one and the other coffee pot.

2. It's a brilliant idea to use your favorite towels to put on the very top of boxes to make sure it's completely full so it won't get crushed.
Until you want to take a shower. You'll have to open 30-40 boxes to find a single towel.

3. A great idea for keeping the kids from going insane on a 5-day car trip is to have a suitcase full of activities they've never seen.
Just remember to check all the batteries before you go.

4. Planning to stay for sunrise at the most beautiful lake in the world is a near-guarantee that you'll have rain.
It doesn't mean you won't get a beautiful picture anyhow.