01-07-20.
Today will be a bit of an endless day, since we’re adding 9 timezones.
We were booked to fly Munich to Iceland to Seattle, great-circle style. Thanks /no thanks to Icelandic, we are now booked to fly Munich to San Fran to Seattle on Luftansa and Alaska Air. There’s some chance we’ll make the connection after going through customs, and if so we’ll be back in WA at 1 AM. One way or another, we willeventually be back in Roslyn….
We’ve been on the road for a while now, and we could both name a few creature comforts that will be nice, upon return. We are excited to think we might finally see some SNOW, and to be in better touch with friends and family.
But the more we roam the more I wake up excited about each day.
Not sure why it’s easier to have deep conversations with strangers in strange (to me)places, but it seems so.
People we have met have been ridiculously kind to us, have shared their manners and foods and knowledge, while politely sidestepping or ignoring our large packs, our lack of languages, our bumbling ways.
The beauty of old settled places and contnental style, the great food and beer and public transport will be missed. The wars that have ravaged so many places and peoples are motivation to step up to a calm and compassionate engagement with all manner of folk.
Ciao for now