Heading Out

Well, today's the big day! There's no going back now! (Unless you hop an Amtrak or Greyhound, that is.) Bill & David headed out today. Their flight left the Hubert H. Humphrey airport in Minneapolis a little after 1pm, and they arrived safely in Seattle about three hours later.

David called me at the tail end of my lunch break to say that he happened to run into the pilot of their plane while standing in line for food (the HHH terminal is a pretty small place), and he asked if the pilot might be able to announce when they fly over Minot, ND. David gave him a few sentences of explanation about their trip, and the pilot agreed to try to make the announcement if they weren't otherwise occupied. Once they were in the air, the pilot did make the announcement when they were near Minot, and David said he spent the rest of the 3-hour plane trip thinking, "Oh man, I have to bike all the way back!"

The last I heard, they had just gotten their bikes from the oversized luggage section of baggage claim. They'll be waiting at the airport for a few hours until the departure of their shuttle to Anacortes, which is on the coast. Tonight they'll assemble the bikes and get a good night's sleep in Anacortes before the real fun begins tomorrow.

David said the mountains were visible in the distance from the Seattle airport - a beautiful, but daunting sight for a couple of guys who have to pedal their way home!