Bring almost nothing when you move

[sputnut]

We found that flying out of San Jose / San Francisco is WAY cheaper than LAX (Which makes no sense because almost all SJC flights go thru LAX before crossing the ocean anyway) But my question is this: Does anyone ship vehicles out of San Jose, and if so, who is cheapest / best?

comin' your way soon!

[jlgerk]

vehicles ship out of Oakland - Matson

[Carey]

We fly out of Oakland, as hubby had a work class just before retiring, and at that time Pasha picked up around there (still shipped LB..)
Might want to see if they still offer that service

[coastal]

Moved here in June 2012. Matson out of Oakland. $1079 one way. Not too bad to ship a car straight to Hilo.

[sputnut]

it's just too bad you can't stuff em full.

comin' your way soon!

[Lee M-S]

Longshoremen drive the cars on and off the boats. Stuff 'em full, get 'em back empty.



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[rainyjim]

But, Lee, it's just to bad you can't stuff them full.

[PaulW]

Aha! I always wondered what the reason was that the car had to be empty.

[microage97]

insurance purposes i supose. It seems that they ran the gas way down as well. We delivered them 1/4 full and got them back on fumes.

[lattelady49]

As I move through the many pages of Punatalk topics, I come across this one. Seems little has changed over the decades. We first moved to Maui in 1986, one Toyota p/u "YO", one antique oak buffet, four children from ages 3 to 17, and about 17 suitcases and boxes. We finished our first stint in Hawaii years later on the BI, living at 9 Hanohano in Hilo. Don't know why, but that address has always stuck with me. Were it not for a serious diagnosis of our youngest, we would be living in HPP in the home we were planning to build.
Two decades after leaving, we are returning and planning to do it the same, less the keikis and "YO" but with the same antique oak buffet and a buttload of tools for building our home. We actually laugh at ourselves because it took years to get over talking about how our shoes and books grew soft green downy coats if we didn't keep the closets dry enough. Guess the memories are fading because we are so excited to make new ones, and really could care less about fighting the wet climate this time around! Just give me the small house we plan to build and my greenhouse...all will be good.
I might add, many of the friends that have stayed in touch, even visited us mainland, are the local Hawaiian and Japanese friends we made. We so are looking forward to visiting all of them, spread out from Ewa Beach to Hilo, it will take some time but well worth it. If you take the time to truly become friends with people, color fades. I look back at soccer team pictures and see my blonde haole keikis towering over their local teammates, I remember my husband helping to coach in Hilo with the team gathering around him to give him special gifts at the end of the season, I look at my Class Yearbooks from Guam and read about where some of my high school friends went on to become political leaders, I think of the young airline trainees I helped to develop into great employees that went on to have great careers in the airline industry. I see my young 7 year old son's first crush is now helping her father run his golf pro business on Maui...he named his first born daughter after her.
Everything about Hawaii warms my heart, so my readings here on Punaweb leave me to pause now and then as I feel there are many that have moved there without any desire to embrace Aloha, even some who mock it and who seem intent on bullying those who do. That's okay...we all are who we are. I, myself, embrace the island lifestyle having spent a quarter of my life in Micronesia and Hawaii, plus lived in 9 other states on both coasts and in between. I feel privileged to be returning to my favorite home ever and look forward to meeting many of you that I am getting to know through Punaweb.
Give me loose clothing, rubber flip flops, an island breeze and the ability to sit on the beach watching the Pacific ocean. It gets no better than that, anywhere.
Aloha[:I]