We have decided that James N will the person who goes to to Irvine, doctor Chen's place to pickup all trees for San Diego folks.
Thank you, James, Dr Chen, Steven, and Joseph for donating your precious time for others.
So estimated tree delivery route will be as follows for southern California folks.
1/18 ( Tuesday) Trees land in SFO
1/19 ( Wednesday) Trees get Inspection and be released, Joseph Kanach picks up trees (137 in total) from the bay area,
drives down to LA
1/20 ( Thursday) LA area folks pick trees pick up from LAX area.
Steven C(#18) will pick all trees including Irvine area and San Diego to Acadia.
Dr Chen(#2) will go to Acadia pick up all trees for Irvine area and San Diego
All Irvine area folks go to Dr Chen's place for pick up.
James N(#58) will to go Irvine to pick up all trees for San Diego folks.
All San Diego folks go to James N's place for pick up.
One more day of waiting till the trees get shipped toward USA. At night time ( in China, it will be Sunday), the trees will be transported to the airport for docking. All the trees were just pulled with fresh yesterday, and every ten trees were wrapped together with perlite on roots to keep moisturized, and then were loaded into three big shipping boxes.
I will be monitoring the flight ANA 8516's status tomorrow night, if it is on schedule, we are in 50% success.