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<p>A lot depends on how many drawers you feel compelled to take on
each trip.</p>
<p>From extensive personal experience, the best moving experiences
have been those where it involved many smaller loads in a
passenger vehicle, just moving drawers and <b>not</b> cabinets.
This is vastly easier when the distance is short. Under those
circumstances, a lot of small-volume trips is possible, and, I
would say, very desirable compared to the alternative.<br>
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<p>You can fit a surprising number of drawers into the seats of a
car, and the seats' cushioning is generally sufficiently squishy.
A researcher who works in our collection drives back and forth
from California to Tennessee, every year for many years now, with
about 20 drawers in his car, and has never had any issues, even
though the trip takes him four days each way. Other than
precautions against drawers sliding sideways, he doesn't really do
anything special.</p>
<p>If you can drive cross-country that way, a half mile trip should
be pretty easy, unless the "bumpy" part is spine-shattering.</p>
<p>Peace,<br>
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Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</pre>
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