More about Moving

The date to sell the house has been moved up from October to mid-August. That's when the loan is finalized. We expect to be out of Thailand and back in the USA by the end of August. The best part is that it means we will not have to renew our annual visa in September!

I have arranged for an apartment to be available for us the day after we arrive. We will have the actual address before we leave here! I should know it in about 3 weeks. Then we can begin the misery that is address changing.

I have a quote from a very reputable moving company for shipping our household goods. It's the price I expected to pay, so we will be accepting the offer and setting the date for probably the 17th of August. We won't be moving any furniture, not when the cost is roughly $500 per cubic yard. We shipped $25,000 worth of household goods here, and will be shipping about the same back, for about $5,000 each way.

Once the household goods are shipped, we move into a hotel downtown and sell the car. We transfer the money from the sales to our US bank, confirm the arrival of said funds, and then we are free to go. I plan to leave a window of about a week for the money to be transferred. It shouldn't be necessary, it only takes 1 or 2 days, but Jim is cautious that way, and any issues will be easier to resolve from here than the US.

I have not yet purchased tickets for the flight home. That's the next thing on the to-do list after the details for the household goods shipment are arranged, which I will do tomorrow, since it's Sunday here.

We are "eating down" our food, trying to run out of things. Unfortunately, the swine flu has finally arrived in Thailand. I'd like to have some food stockpiled to get through a few weeks without having to visit The Mall. It seems that circumstances just aren't cooperating.