We are leaving in two weeks for Seattle. Roseann is sitting next to me suggesting at the end of the trip we ship our luggage back, since the baggage costs for the airline flights have gotten so exorbitant and honestly with all we are bringing on this trip it seems to make sense. We are going to Seattle, then Vancouver, with a stop at Olympic National Park for some hiking before we fly out to Maui and then Kauai for two weeks of surf and sun and more hiking and open door helicopter rides and somewhere in there a wedding on the beach (ours, in case one of our three readers hadn't heard).
Today we got hiking socks and I got some more "performance" underwear (cuz my drawers were just not living up to expectations). We are pretty much set for the hiking gear. We will also have some biking gear, lightweight clothes for hawaii, swimming trunks, jeans, numerous shoes, dinnerwear, a little mini computer and a lot of other stuff I cannot recall at the moment.
We have prebooked all of our hotels in addition to our flights (chicago to seattle, seattle to maui, maui to kauai, kauai to maui, maui to seattle, seattle to chicago). We still need to get the car rentals done. We have tickets for a show in Vancouver (Josh Ritter!) and I picked up some late night tickets for "Evil Dead: The Musical" showing in West Seattle (according to "The Rough Guide to Seattle", this is a boring ass neighborhood and according to wikipedia this is the original Seattle before the settlers all decided that the land on the other side of Elliot Bay looked more fun).
Seattle will be a tour of neighborhoods, hanging out in Pioneer Square, Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, International District, etc. Vancouver may be similar, but I really need to look at those books soon. All I know is that the food in Vancouver is good and the Asians are plentiful (Ramen!).
I am getting some contacts next week so I can be all fitted out for goggles when we go snorkeling and get all wrinkly skinned in Hawaii. I need to make a list of everything to pack soon and we need to finish up with packing up the cats (a few holes in the wood crates and a can or two of food and I'm sure they'll be fine for the three weeks we're gone.
That's it for now, we're mostly ready, just gonna work a bunch of overtime leading up to our departure and bite my nails to the nubs as our departure gets closer.
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