As we write this email, we have 5 days until we leave China for Chiang Mai. Once we are in Thailand, we can be a little freer with what we can say. This email will be brief and is meant to inform you of our pending timelines.
This coming Saturday, a shipping company will come to pack the things that we’ve decided to take with us to Thailand and that same day they will take those things away and they will be shipped by sea to Bangkok and then they will be transferred to our home in Chiang Mai.
Next Monday morning, our two schnauzers, Trixie & Nani, will be picked up at our home and they will fly that day to Kunming, be boarded there until Friday and then they will fly to Bangkok.
Also on Monday, we will fly from Chengdu to Hong Kong and then on to Bangkok, Thailand. We should arrive late Monday around 11:45 pm. The first night we will stay in an AirBNB near the airport and the next day we will relocate to another place in Bangkok. On Friday, we will pick up our dogs and we will then travel to Chiang Mai on Saturday morning. At this time, we do not know whether we will travel by plane or by van, space for pets to fly in Thailand is limited.
Sometime on Saturday, July 2nd, we should be walking into our next home. We have arranged to sub-lease a house from teachers at Grace International School who will be going on home assignment until January 2023 and we’ve also arranged to lease their vehicle during that time. This arrangement will give us some breathing space and time so we won’t have to rush to rent a house and buy a vehicle.
Pray that our travel plans would flow like they are planned and that all connections would be made. Pray also for our transition from China; all of us are tired, there is a lot of work to closing down a home in one country and moving to another country.
Once in Thailand, we’ll soon send another email with more details.
Ken & Stephani