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Incommunicado
We’re in Vancouver. Try as I might, I cannot get a network connection for my Blackberry; I’m writing this on the Sylvia Hotel’s remarkably slow lobby computer.
So it looks like I won’t have anything for you until we get back to Seattle, late this coming Monday. Oh, well! Hopefully, I’ll have some stories to tell.
By the way: driving from Seattle to Vancouver yesterday was NOT fun. Six hours drive time, three of which was spent in traffic at the border crossing and shortly beyond it (when the 99 narrowed from four lanes to two). Gaaah . . . but the family held up remarkably well.
D.
Isn’t there some kind of ferry thing? I know I took it.
Have a great vacation!
Hey! Welcome to the great Northwest, where the skies are clear, the trees are green, and sitting idle on the freeway is a local pastime.
There is a ferry, and the wait to get through customs is shorter, but the cost is enough to make you appreciate basking in the fumes of a thousand cars for a few hours.
6 hours? That sux0rs.
Hey, wanted to let you know that we had a good time the other night; hope y’all did as well. I wish the boys had hit it off better, but… *shrug* So it goes.
Travel safe, and hope the rest of your vacation goes smoothly.
O’Brien: Dean and I took pictures together today so that we can prove to you we are not the same person.
Kate: yes, there is indeed a ferry from Seattle (more or less) to Vancouver, but if I’m not mistaken, it’s passenger only.
ps, Jake’s an only child. You know what that’s like. We had a great time, and I’ll be giving you a proper thank you once I’m back in the land of reliable internet access.
Which reminds me: as I write this, I’m on Mayne Island with Dean and sxKitten, and somehow Ihave Internet reception! Weird, eh? Maybe I’ll have a chance to write more tomorrow.
3 hours at the border is indeed teh sux0r. Spotty blackberry coverage is mildly teh sux0r.
B’stila, on the other hand, is the very antithesis of sux0r. It is teh rox0r.
Just wait until I make you guys sweet potato-filled raviolis in sage-and- brown butter sauce. Teh ulTehmate rox0r!