Believe it or not, I was happy to be back home, but it was time to start planning for the next trip.  Next time I want to go for a year.

Leaving for my first trip over seas.

Welll I'm glad to say after braving a hurricane all day yesterday and hitchhiking in 90mph winds I'm at the sea-tac airport waiting to board my flight to chicago then to Dublin.It was a very interesting day but I made it safe and sound, there's a lot of damage all over and the Sate of Washington has been declared a  state of emergency by the Governor of Washington, 80,000 people are without power including where I hitchhiked in from, I finally got a ride by a nice guy who took me as far as he could then i took local bus transportation into the airport this morning, 3 1.2 hours later I'n HERE, thus the adventure begins and from here on out I'll be blogging every chance i get so stay tuned for my interesting and wacky adventures globe trotting the world!!! I'll postp ics when i'm able to get to my camera which i left in my check in luggage, so it'll give you something to wait for at the edges of your seat!!!!

We began our trip a little behind schedule and had to bump to the next connecting flight to SFO, but we had over 5 hours to burn anyway.  The flights were all on time and easy, although we only slept a few winks on the 9 hour flight to LHR.

The rental car is a bit large, we wanted a car but they gave us an SUV type vehicle.  We call it the Lorry.

After several wrong turns caused by me (the navigator) I noticed that my laptop was running low.  The power plug wasn't working, and my fancy GPS solution was about to go on the fritz.  Linda was having trouble with the left hand manual transmission and I couldn't help much with directions as my computer ran out of power.

In the nick of time I found a 2nd outlet in the back of the console and plugged in.  Power On!  I got us back on track and Linda is getting the hang of the traffic circles and gear shifts.  Time to hit the hay, I made it until 7pm which is pretty good for me.  Linda is already snoozing.

Cheers!