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Putting All of Your Stuff in Someone Else’s Hands

The process of getting yourself from one part of the world to another is not terribly complex. Get a plane ticket, pack some bags and off you go. However, airlines are quite fussy about how much you take with you on a plane and don’t want to include all of your possessions in your luggage allowance. To fully move 5,000 miles and across an ocean, you need an alternative. That means loading all of your stuff up in a shipping container, sending it across the ocean and hoping it doesn’t drop off a ship on the way. The first step is having the shipping company come and pack everything up. Our street was not suitable for bringing in a 40’ ISO container so they loaded a couple of trucks up to take everything to their site for transfer to the container.

The smaller trucks came on the first day when the crew showed up with the packing material to get everything packed up ready to go. The second day was the loading and packing any remaining items. The bigger trucks were needed for the loading. They were really efficient about packing the items into the truck to minimise space used. Quite a game of Tetris, I imagine. Then the doors get closed, and a truck drives off with almost all of your belongings in it. Fingers crossed you see it all again!

The Ride to the Next Phase

This is just another British Airways Boeing 787-10 so maybe not something too exciting. However, this was the plane that was going to take me and Nancy to the UK as we wrapped up our time in the US. The plane was just another plane making another trip but, for us, it was the transition from one phase of our lives to the next. I have occasionally wondered about the journeys people are making when I see a plane coming from a long way away. It could just be a work trip or a vacation but sometimes it is a really significant transformation. This flight was that for us. Onwards!

Time for Another Big Change

Things are about to get different for us.  We moved to California in 2013 as a result of work changes for me.  Some of the things we had planned worked out well but a few others did not go as expected.  Nothing unusual in that.  However, we started to consider some other options for what to do.  I have now been given a new opportunity which involves a move to Seattle.  Consequently, we are making another move.  We are heading to the Pacific Northwest.

I have no idea what this is going to bring.  Certainly there will be plenty of new things for us to explore.  We have visited the area before but living there will be a while new thing.  The area is full of aviation activities, many of which have been the subject of previous blog posts.  Consequently, I expect a lot of things will be fun to check out.  We will leave behind friends and hopefully make new ones.  The blog will show off a lot of those things as they happen.  Strap in for the ride!