Ack.
I just got off the phone with Tim who went and talked with TMO (I don't know what that stands for, but they're the people in charge of military moves etc.), and they said that they don't ship cars. This means we'll either have to drive it up there ourselves - roughly 3500 miles in the dead of winter, or we have to pay out of pocket to have it shipped. Also, Tim has a limit on how many miles a day he can travel...I think it's 350 or so miles per day. This means we would have to take 10 or so days to drive unless we can somehow work around his travel limit (oh, and they pay per-diem so the fast we travel, the less reimbursment we get). We would have to do this with a hyper dog and a cat. The lady he talked to also said something about they won't pay for us to drive home unless we haul a certain amount of our own belongings...along with our car, pets and us. So we'd have to rent a u-haul, tow our car, have a cat, a dog, and some of our stuff travel 10 or so days across 3500 miles in the dead of winter hoping to find hotels that will accept pets.
All of this because the military doesn't ship cars along with all your other belongings during a move. Brilliant. Go go military logic!
Now I have to figure all of this out and make it work somehow, in a way that won't completely make this move miserable.
K, rant over.
I just got off the phone with Tim who went and talked with TMO (I don't know what that stands for, but they're the people in charge of military moves etc.), and they said that they don't ship cars. This means we'll either have to drive it up there ourselves - roughly 3500 miles in the dead of winter, or we have to pay out of pocket to have it shipped. Also, Tim has a limit on how many miles a day he can travel...I think it's 350 or so miles per day. This means we would have to take 10 or so days to drive unless we can somehow work around his travel limit (oh, and they pay per-diem so the fast we travel, the less reimbursment we get). We would have to do this with a hyper dog and a cat. The lady he talked to also said something about they won't pay for us to drive home unless we haul a certain amount of our own belongings...along with our car, pets and us. So we'd have to rent a u-haul, tow our car, have a cat, a dog, and some of our stuff travel 10 or so days across 3500 miles in the dead of winter hoping to find hotels that will accept pets.
All of this because the military doesn't ship cars along with all your other belongings during a move. Brilliant. Go go military logic!
Now I have to figure all of this out and make it work somehow, in a way that won't completely make this move miserable.
K, rant over.
November 15, 2007 at 12:59 PM
alright, calm down. :) Its not as bad as it sounds. U don't need to rent a uhaul. Ill talk tp you about it on vent. hang in there!