At last, We Are Flying From Thailand to Ireland

Its now the Afternoon of the 3rd of December, our flight it tonight and we are shortly getting a taxi from our hotel here in Bangkok to the airport for our check-in.

The last week has been hectic.  We vacated our house in Chiang Mai and drove 1010 km to my wife's family home near Ubon Ratchatanee with our dog in the car.  Our dog is going to live with my wife's family on a farm, which we are guessing should be very good for her.

There is a interesting story to our Dog, Oreo is her name.  We found her abandoned more than 10 years ago when we lived in San Khampheng district of Chiang Mai.  She had been abandoned by the side of the road, and she was very hungry and scared.  I took her home and fed her, and we knew immediately that she would stay with us.   She is a very good natured dog, as good a dog as anyone could wish for.    We did not know how old she was, but she was not a puppy, we guessed that she was about 2 or 3 years old.  That was more then 10 years ago.

With Oreo safely at my wifes family home we went to Bangkok and stayed last night in a hotel that is fairly central and next to a skytrain.

We left our car (a 2002 Isuzu Vega Diesel SUV) in Ubon with my wifes family.   Its been a great vehicle for us in the 5 years since I bought it.  We have done a lot of miles in it.  I paid a 385,000 baht for it 5 years ago (yes, well over 10,000 dollars for what was a 10 year old car).   But used car values are not as strong as they were in Thailand and given that its now a 15 years old vehicle we decided that we are better off to just keep it rather than try and sell it.

So here we are.    We have 4 main cases that we are checking-in and 2 rucksacks that we are taking as hand luggage.   Everything else is in safe storage in Chiang Mai.    Our house is let to a very nice Danish man, and he will move in next week.   Our lives are about to undergo massive change, but for now we have a ticket and 2 nights booked in a hotel in Dublin.   Nothing more.

I am going to switch off my computer and we are going to the airport to catch our flight.