in international airports you may see life-sized cardboard chinese stewardesses standing a poised pose with beauty and grace in their essence. they make you want to smile and stand up straight even in their cardboardness. china airlines is a lot like a great restaurant menu - the pictures are perfect representations of what you will get. these beautiful chinese stewardesses topped their cardboard doubles. in addition to the asian princesses we got great meals, personal tvs and movies to choose from, AND a trip back to the homeland.
after a night back at the uncle steve guest house, an amazing welcome-home burger, and a trip to the renton library, we found ourselves at the next place any american would want to be after two months away: the greyhound bus station. lined up with what could have been a psych hospital field trip, we boarded -- seattle to des moines, 43 hours, 40 stops. not a great recipe for curing jet lag.
like any good greyhound experience, most of it was in a thin haze of fog. the most memorable moments were during the second night due to a driver who was "a piece of work" (adam's quote, 3 am). she woke us at 2 am for a truck stop breakfast with "awesome" food and coffee. her shrill voice with north dakota accent blasted thorough overly-amplified speakers throughout the bus. "alright, i'm only stoppin' for a few minutes. only enough time for a few drags on a cigarette." she was full of surprises - she waxed on to a captive audience about the story of the five tribes and the white buffalo. and, before her shift was up we gave ear to her plans: take a nice hot shower, sleep in her fluffy queen-sized featherbed, and have a drink. she'd be "thinking of us" as we continued in our plush greyhound accomodations.
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Dear God...please don't ask me to take a trip on a Greyhound bus. Amen.
Oh yeah!!! Welcome back. : )
LOL. I just checked the afoot site for old times sake and was surprised to read your last entry.
So good to have spent time with you on the last leg of your journey. It would be great if you kept the blog going-or at least until you get the part in about Bingo at the Blind Society!
Hey you two!! I didn't understand comments until we had a blog---but we've been following ya'll ALL summer and have LOVED living vicariously through your adventures!!! What an awesome trip and what an awesome couple you are---wow!!! As excited as we are for our current season of life, I must say there were MANY times we were reading your stories wishing we could be so wild and adventurous! We LOVE you two SO much!!! xoxo!
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