Seattle Adventures

The drive north from Portland was great, primarily because it was so short relative to our previous month's marathon driving days. We enjoyed time in Olympia and Auburn catching up with supporters, family, and friends. And now we are in Seattle.
Seattle is a really cool city. The people that live in and around Seattle are cool. We're staying with one of AMI's trustees and his family (who are excellent hosts and great fun). This particular trustee works for Boeing, and he arranged for us to take a tour of their big 'ol factory here. A most amazing place: the largest building (by volume) in the world. State-of-the-art assembly-lines, building new 747-8's, 777's, and 787's. Apparently we are now among the first people around (outside of Seattle, of course, where they've been running test flights for quite some time now) to have seen the 787's (having now seen jets 19-21 in situ on the assembly floor). My more technical-industrially inclined brothers-in-law will be jealous, I am sure.
At this point, we're starting to feel some of the wear of living on the road for so long. It's been refreshing to have a little bit more time in one place, as it is allowing us to catch up on correspondence, re-sort our luggage, change the oil on the car (24 states so far), and set up meetings with folks on our Support Team around the Seattle area. This morning we were able to meet one of our newest trustees - something we wouldn't have had time for in a tighter schedule. So while the length of this journey is getting a bit old, the value of spending actual time with people has indeed been worth it. And we've now added an extra city to the MegaTransect: Minneapolis, MN.
Andrew