April, 2024

This sort of fits into my “The process of leaving” posts… but it feels different enough that I’m keeping it separate. It’s not really a discussion about moving, since I’ve very much talked through that part already, but it’s more of a quick opportunity to show the glimpse of what professional international movers do.

Eduardo and Antonio, with something like 20 years experience packing each, banged this whole thing out in just under four hours.

Now, keep in mind, I wasn’t allowed to pack anything myself, legally. Since the shipping company is doing the customs forms, they’re required to see everything that goes into the box – and so while I was allowed to put things into some boxes, those boxes had to be opened for a quick inspection before they got wrapped up and marked down.

It went exceptionally quickly, though there was a bit of a kerfuffle with exactly how much stuff I had… Starting with:
– “Ohh, you have so little stuff! It’ll only take up half the box!”
– “Hmm. You actually have a lot of stuff. You’re going to have to leave about half of it behind.”
– “Wait, hold on, we can tetris this… okay! Everything fits except the guitar!”

It was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.

I held strong, and just kind of let the anxiety waves crash around me while letting the guys do their thing.