International air travel is rarely that exciting that you can raise the hairs on a persons neck writing about it so don't hold your breath. We did discover that finding a place, our lodgings in this case, is a lot easier if you know an address, name or at least suburb. It was therefore telling that a none of the taxi drivers at Seattle were prepared to take us anywhere due to a lack of being able to provide any of the above details. Eventually we did get a taxi who advised us that in 10 years of driving taxis in Seattle he had never been on any of the roads we took him on. Jennie would have loved it, thats how she operates We eventually got to where we needed via a fairly roundabout route and a robust fare more than double what it cost going the other way a year ago.
This preceded earlier by a cavity search at Vancouver airport from the charming customs officials and then a 3 km run to our flight which we caught with seconds to spare having been through I don't know how many security and passport controls. Wankers.
Anyway, here we are. Dave and I get to share a bed tonight. I thought we might end up spooning before the trips over but on the first night?
I'm sleeping in my Kevlar riding gear tonight.
Hahahahahaha! O dear! Cavity search, taxi rip-off and sharing a bed all in the first 24 hours! You sure know how to have fun, dear!!
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