What to do with all our Stuff!

What to do with all our stuff!

We had 3 different shipments - non-temporary storage (NTS), household goods (HHG) and unaccompanied baggage (UB). 

Storage will be held near Fort Campbell for the next two years. The Army will ship these things to our next PCS location when returning to the States from Korea. UB will be packed on a pallet and flown to Korea. It should arrive in about 2-3 weeks, but it could take up to 8 weeks. HHG can take up to 8 weeks. It will be packed and shipped across the Pacific by boat. 

 Things like my antique china cabinet and our movie cases we put in storage. Storage and space are always in short supply in Korea because of the huge population compared to the size of the country. The country is about the size of Indiana.

We decided not to ship a vehicle to Korea since it takes about 6 weeks for your vehicle to arrive, 6 weeks to return to the States and the public transportation is great in Korea....once you figure it out of course ;)  One other thought - driving in Korea is an adventure in itself and vehicles will often come back to the States with more dings than they went with. All in all, we decided it wasn't worth it for use and we sold both of our vehicles. A word to the wise...keep in mind you'll probably want to buy vehicles again when returning to the States so save those dollars!

Hoopties - older, well-used vehicles.

This is our planned mode of transport when we can't use public transportation. We will buy an inexpensive vehicle to use while in Korea and sell it before we leave. Maybe I'll even get a moped! They seem pretty popular here. But I'm not sure I'll venture off post much to drive myself. At least at first, I'll use public transportation instead of driving myself until I learn my way a little more.