Towneplace Suites By Marriott Seattle South-Renton

... with you. Now that we are back home and have some actual bandwidth we will share our videos with you. Please check back in the next couple of days...I had a lot of fun making the videos! So this is the end of this blog. I've had enough of traveling for now, but hopefully we will have another in about four years after graduation...can you say Barbados?! :D This is Kiera Stevens, signing off. Thanks for joining us,

So, We're on our way to New York, the Big Apple to see Masiji. After about 2-3 days in NY, we'll get on a plane and after a sixteen hour flight, we'll be in India!!! We miss Poppi already. Mommy says she started missing him yesterday. :( When we were heading to the airport in Anchorage, at around 5:00 this morning Alaska time, we saw a fox crossing the road ahead of us! We're sorry we couldn't get a picture of ...

... it's not like they were doing the whole "lets put everything on carry-on in case our luggage gets lost", because I watched these same people pull off the largest check-luggage I've ever seen as well. So anyway, the result of this absurd volume of carry-on baggage is that there is no room on the airplane for it. And every single one of them gets on and starts stressing about where they are going to put all their ****. And after all the overhead bins are starting to ...

... Vancouver. It's always fun to meet other motorcyclists on the Ferry (which we always do because bikers like to talk) and this time we saw several people from our 3 Flags ride and a few new folks including a guy from Texas who had a week off and decided to head to British Columbia to visit his sister... gotta love it! Once off the Ferry we headed east and eventually south crossing the border at Abbotsford. We moved south on Washington Hwy 9 ...

What better way to start a cruise than a quick (expensive) trip to the outlet center just north of Seattle. Actually it wasn't expensive at all. We found some great buys and I have to let everyone know that the economy is not dead in the USofA.... at least if the outlet stores are any indication. Turns out that this is the perfect way to start a cruise. Sort of like stretching ...

... in Capital Hill where her enormous cat is waiting to psych us out. Seattle is the city that truly never sleeps, why? Because it's obsessed with coffee. The making of a latte is an art form. We visited the first ever Starbucks which actually just looks and fits in with all the other coffee haunts here. Once on the streets it does feel different from probably many other parts of America Cathy drove us ...

... We enjoyed an irreverent dinner at Trader Vic's (and yes, for you Zevon vans, we partook in Pina Coladas and Dart's hair was perfect!) in Bellevue and walked the downtown area a little while. Neat, vibrant, and active downtown on a Friday night. Got back to the hotel and gathered our stuff together for tomorrow's long trudge home...

... cold. We were very moved by what we saw, the 20 min movie show, the artifacts and the tee pee poles erected on the Battlefield in memory of the men, women & children, killed in the surprise attack. As we went onwards there was a huge high plateau that went for miles accross the Continental Divide (now on the Eastern side of this divide - from this divide east rivers flow towards the Atlantic & on the West, the rivers flow towards the Pacific. Wed 15th Aug Drove to the small city ...

... travel aid on Earth), I have my usual follow-up to the anticipation feeling - the smile of contentment from a journey begun. January 2, 2007 First impressions are not always lasting impressions. Indeed, I slept well on the train and woke up round dawn as the train crawled through the snowy, hilly terrain of Northern California. Grandfather and granddaughter across the aisle from me. He put the granddaughter in the inside chair, protecting her from whatever may come. Her first ...

... Arizona: I loved living in Tucson and would recommend getting into the mountain range to the north of town there. If you do head there, I've got one of my bestest buddies (who you'll meet at the wedding) who lives there and would be happy to entertain I'm sure. There's a kind of zoo/preserve near Tucson that is also cool - Ahh, Tucson. go to sabino canyon and swim in the seven falls, as well as hike up Blackett's Ridge for a good view of the area. Between Tucson and Phoenix ...