Ok, so today the packers were to come to box up all our stuff and haul it away for shipment to the US and onforwarding to Indonesia, ETA - 8am.  Phone rings at 630am - Singapore Expat Center ... we start chatting.

Seems there AGAIN is confusion on my shipment.  Recall that going INTO Indonesia I am entitled to a 40 ft container (big mamma).  But, leaving Angola I am entitled to only 4 little LDN crates (380 cu ft total) ... plus I'm entitled to take things from my storage in Houston ... as long as it fits in the 40 ft container (although I'm not allowed to go to Houston to get my stuff.  And, if I have a container shipment ... I am entitled to air freight into Indonesia totalling 13 boxes.

So ... what was last agreed was .... 13 boxes by air to Indonesia ... 4 LDNs by air to the US to meet up with my storage ... to be shipped by 40 ft container from US to Indonesia.

Time out ... all bets are off ... my 13 boxes which were collected 6 weeks ago are sitting at the airport here in Angola ... ready to leave ... BUT ... I can't have "two air shipments" only one .... ARGGHHH ... so how do I get my boxes?  And how do I get my other stuff out of Angola?

My mind was in a bit of a fog ... but I think the decision was ... 13 boxes by air to Indonesia ... arriving 29-Aug, customs clearance time 3-6 weeks.  Then my 4 LDNs from here ... but might not be 4 LDNs by air from here but 4 LDNs by sea inside a 20 ft container to Indonesia (I think) ... then because I will have already consumed 1/2 of a 40 ft container ... I will get a second 20 ft container from Houston ...

... or was that one 20 foot container from Angola to the US ... to be added to a second 20 foot container in the US ... all going to Indonesia ... or was that 4 LDNs by air to Indonesia .. and one 20 foot container by sea from the US ... or was that ????

Anyway, the packers came ... they saw ... they boxed ... and hauled my stuff away .... a measly 62 boxes.  The shipping folks and Expat Center now have custody of all of our stuff ... I'm outta here on Saturday ... THEY can figure out what they want to do with it.

ciao ciao.