emily's fourth place

i picked up my friend, emily from the sea-tac airport and went to her house.  that was the same emily that i had stayed with before my round trip drive to alaska, but it was to a different house.  she had moved again! she already had the record of hosting me in three different houses where she was living at each time, but then made it four!   it was a lovely house that she shared with three other people.

i stayed on the couch in their living room for two nights.  it felt like luxury after having spent the previous 7 nights in my van.

emily showed me where they have blackberries growing wild over their fence.  we picked and ate and enjoyed.

emily brought me to a food-truck styled rancho bravo mexican place where she was meeting with her friends goo and tad.   it was fun and quite pleasant to meet them : )

emily bought my meal.   i got a quesadilla with beef tongue for the meat.  mmmm, 'twas good.

before my evening flight left for hawaii, emily and i tucked my van into their little garage for safe-keeping, drove to a few places to pick pears off of pear trees growing on the curb (emily had made a delicious pear butter from the previous batch of pears she picked), and went to a coffee shop with internet,  cafe bambino.

the outdoor seating had a roof so we didn't get wet while it rained.

when we got to the airport there was absolutely no line for security, so i went through easily.  my plane left the gate on time but right before we were going to take off there was  a mechanical issue.   i think an air-conditioner was in need of maintenance.  

basically we had to go all the way back to the gate and wait for the issue to get resolved.   that caused about an hour and a half delay.   i didn't really notice though because i was reading a book and making my time on the plane useful.   there were about 7 distinct layers of clouds that we past through as we ascended from the sea-tac airport.

the six hour flight went pretty smooth.