Moving to Alaska: Day Seventeen

I am picking Thao up at the airport in the morning so Ryan, Amanda and I just hung around the house until time to go.

Except that about an hour before we had to be at the airport, Thao sent me a message saying the plane just landed in Anchorage!!! Last I checked, that is the wrong direction. Amanda, being the flight attendant, knows where to check such things, and saw it turned around after about 45 minutes and was now expected to arrive in Seattle a few hours later.

Well, a few hours pass and Thao has not left Anchorage yet. A few more "estimated departures" come and go until we eventually get to the number that it will arrive in Seattle about 10 hours behind schedule!!!

So to kill time Ryan and I went walking around West Seattle for the afternoon, grabbed some lunch with Amanda (who did not go aimlessly wandering with us) and some letterboxes, then eventually were able to make it to the airport to pick up Thao. Amanda drove me down so I did not have to load up the car and cat and all that to go over. We all went back to visit for a short while but Thao and I had to push on through to Vancouver. I did not want to but alas, it was too lake to cancel the reservation once we learned of the late flight so we figured we might as well just go and have a midnight arrival since we paid for the room anyway. It turned out to be a decent room; I will keep it in mind whenever we finally do make a visit to Vancouver.

So not much happened today since so much of it was in limbo but FINALLY, Thao and I are together and it is time to start for the Northlands!!!

Start: Seattle, Washington

Stop: Vancouver, British Columbia

~150 Miles Driven

~4.7 Miles Walked
4 Letterboxes Found

0 Letterboxes Not Found

0 Letterboxes Planted

Pictures will be posted on Facebook in this album (and the link will be included in all future posts for this trip):

Moving to Alaska Photos