The rythm of my days began to take on a pleasant pattern of review, shop, pack then review again. Such is the dance I perform as I approach a vacation departure date. My working hours have a similar pattern, review, work, document and review. Magically all is completed on the day before my departure. The last bits of three small bags are tucked away and one last review of where those nasty swiss army knifes and bottles of shampoo are. Have to make sure they are in the check-in bags.
All that's left is getting up at 4:30 AM for the limo that will take me to the airport.
I tend to get a little wacky while traveling home. The hours of plane flight with swollen feet and the endless people watching while behind international airport security make everything seem, well, wacky. Tens of thousands of people subjected to obsurd security measures. No one is immune. A fellow traveler called it sheep dipping. It's when you find one tic on a one sheep in a thousand and decide to dip all thousand. A bit overkill but, hey, what are our tax dollars for, certianly not for education or greenhouse gas reduction.
It was 6:30AM at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. I had just checked through immagration and customs to find my self, once again, outside security. Sort of a welcome home and oh by the way, you have to go through security again. We want to make sure, that you are not a terrorist. I made my way to the domestic terminals and my flight back to Seattle. Standing in the all to familiar security line, I found my self between a bunch of kids. Kids in uniforms. Desert fatigues.
Chris took a few of us rookies out to the Futa Monday for a taste of the big water. We even had an audience from the fly fisherpeople. There was some big water ferry activity and, yes I did manage to flip (and roll!). The big action was down stream. (pictures to come). This has […]
Pictures soon I promise! It´s been an intense week. I´ve done six days of extreme kayak training (Chris sez its a battle of will). Spent many minutes upside down and hours playing in rapids practicing peel outs and delayed angle ferries (love them, no paddel movement). Finally got to the class II+/III play area. Expect […]
Four days into the trip. What a place! We are surrounded by mountains topped with snow. The valley has been from 50F to 90F. The water is between 60F and 70F. It took 31 hours to get my sore butt down here. The last six were on a rubber band airplane in clouds with a […]
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