The moving companies get you there in the end
What a messy move we just made. All I can say is that we are lucky to all be in the same country together with our household. There was a time in the middle of this fiasco when we were scattered over different countries - that had nothing to do with the moving companies - and our goods were even more scattered. That had everything to do with the moving companies!
We call moving companies for quotations, select two, one for the household and the other for the business; we sign contracts, fix dates and do all the things that the moving companies suggest. Moving day arrives. Then Dad gets a call to go to China urgently. There’s some production problem. Mom gets a call that her mother is ill in Chicago. Sister rushes off to UCLA in LA for the comments on her project and me, left to look after the issue of the moving companies, am completely lost.
The moving companies keep working. Everything gets packed. Half is rushed to the railway station and the other half is rushed to the docks. Train and household goods go north and ship and business stuff sails south. You can guess the rest of this story, right?