It's been over a week now since we left Calgary to start our new lives in Phoenix, and things are certainly different than what we had become accustomed to whilst living in Canada. With having the animals, we had decided to drive down with the Jeep rather than flying - Wilson and Khayman had already had the experience of being loaded on to a plane when we emigrated 4 years ago and whilst they both arrived in good health with no effects from the flying, we didn't want to put them through the stress of it all again. Brandy of course was born Canadian and being a large dog, aside from the stress it would likely have caused her, the cost of flying her to Phoenix would also have been expensive. We ended up leaving Calgary a week later than originally planned. Andy had just arrived from Sweden, only to be told that he would be needed in Malaysia a couple of days later, and so I spent a week at the Holiday Inn Express in Calgary with 2 dogs and a cat, waiting for him to ret...