Bill,
Thanks much for the thoughts... I leave early Tuesday morning. The moving company came yesterday..thank goodness, 'cause today we have about 4" of snow on the ground today. We have a final "moving sale" on Sat and then the final pickup on Monday. I have been jumping through hoops to get all the documents certified by the USDA to get my dogs into Japan without having to go into quarantine. They are in Olympia...4-6" of snow there, so they are short staffed.
I have to take the dogs in approved shipping crates, the small one strapped on top the big one, through the Seattle airport and then on to Narita outside Tokyo. Pick them up at baggage claim, strap them together again and off to Animal Control. Get paperwork approved, and cleared, then off to customs for me...then out of the airport to a pet hotel for the night...I'll stay at the Hilton...
Next morning, pick up the dogs and take them in a special Dog taxi for the long drive to Haneda airport (domestic air from Tokyo to Osaka). From Osaka airport, dog taxi again...drop off Tommy at a kennel and take Duskin to my SIL's house where we will be staying for a while.
We have a house! My wife found a house, convenient to go to work, and we can keep both dogs inside. That was tough to find. Unfortunately, it's half the size of the house we have now...and we have about 375 cartons of household goods to fit into it!
No yard!
It does have a garage...8x10'!
Just talked to my wife and looks like my SIL had an internet connection installed in her house for me, so I can at least get online. We'll still have to order it for the new house.
I will never, never again move between November and March! It's been freezing here for the last two weeks, and will be til I leave. My wife has been gone for a month, and the dogs are driving me crazy!
Anyway, it won't be long now....