Home safe and sound

8-7-2010

We arrived in Hampton, NH at about 11:30am.  We were greeted by a large group of Don's family, who had signs, balloons, pizza, and champaign.  Quite the nice reception.  We then dipped out wheels into the Atlantic, and said our goodbyes.

I was met at the beach by Rachel Blum, one of my cousins who lives in Grafton, MA.  We walked around the area for a little bit, stopping to pick up a souvenir shirt.  Then we stopped at a bike shop to have them mail it back to Rock Springs for me.  Then it was on to Boston, where we met my Great-Aunt Irene and Hanah (another cousin) for dinner.

We then drove down to Rachel's house, where she put me up for the night.

After coffee and waffles, Harry (Rachel's son) dropped me off at the train station in Grafton, and I proceeded into Boston.  There I hopped onto the Silver Line to Logan Airport, hoping to catch an earlier flight than the 6pm flight I'd purchased.  When I checked in, I found out I had to pay $50 extra for the opportunity to be on standby.  That just didn't seem worth it, so I sat around the airport reading a book until my flight boarded at 5:30.

A 4 and 1/2 hour flight to Denver, and then a 3 hour flight to Portland, and I was back home!  My folks met me at baggage claim (how nice!) and I was in bed shortly there after.

A couple of days with the folks here in Vancouver, a dinner with my Uncle Jerry and Aunt Ann, and I'll be on the road to Rock Springs by Wednesday.

I'll try to fill in the days that I've missed in the coming weeks.  So if you're interested feel free to check back in.  Also if you have any questions about the trip leave a comment or drop me an email.