I've not updated in a while, it's been a busy 2 months.Made a lot of progress since early June: House was sold, 2 cars sold in the US, 1 car purchased in the UK and we've moved in. Marina and the kids (and the dog) arrived last weekend in London.
Given the way house sales are going in the US we were very fortunate with regard to selling. School finished on Thursday, we left on Friday and closed on the following Monday. Timing could not have been better.
Thankfully we downsized a fair bit prior to loading the container for it's 5 week trip over the pond, but looking at the size of the truck/lorry it's safe to say we still had a lot of stuff to move. Somehow we've managed to get everything into the house though the attic space is being used.
The UK quarantine issue for the dog was thankfully managed by Marina, we handled it all in the US as we had the proper amount of time. The amount of paperwork and proper sequencing of it all was important but that too is behind us and the dog now has it's own 'pet passport' for travel to/from the UK for the rest of her life.
Given various travel and family visits we will not settle into the new 'normal' until sometime in September after the kids have started school. It's good to be all together again, the distance bit was tough for everyone - except perhaps for American Airlines which I've racked up 72k miles on already this year (along with another 8k or so on a BA flight in there somehow).
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