Four years ago, my wife and I began a move from Southern California to our small community in Colorado. It took us a little time to drive 3 separate trips using U-Haul’s largest trucks and cheap labor that we hired through U-Haul (usually 3 young guys each end). Since we had some serious interior painting to do at the new house, we put everything in cheap storage until we were done. It turned out to be a hell of lot cheaper than even the lowest moving estimate, including renting a one-way small car between trips and an overnight motel each way.
BTW, Pods is super expensive coast to coast. Our son got an estimate to move his apartment from Chapel, NC to Denver, CO and it was over $4,000 8 years ago.