In 2020, when we had a lot of time on our hands, and were stuck in our house confined, we started dreaming. We were dreaming of an open, expansive life where we could explore. Where we could create a period of time where we could really sink in to being away from work and engaging with new parts of the world. We dreamed of taking time to travel slowly and really learn about places and people and cultures and who we are in relation. And we saved and budgeted and waited for travel to open again.
But, we had an elder cat so even when it opened we couldn’t really go far with her. So last winter we traveled the southwest and Noodles kept rallying and she even made it home and past her 21st birthday. And we worked and saved more and now we can go!!!
We had a bit of a scare the last day. We had been ahead of schedule packing up our personals in the garage and getting the house ready to rent and that is good. We woke up the day before our flight to San Francisco to find it canceled and had to scramble to find an alternative to get down there. The email said they had tried to rebook us but nothing was available for a few days. Just before we were looking for a car to rent and drive 14 hours down there, we got a call back from the nice people at Alaska to get us a weird way to fly there. Phew.
We got on the plane at noon and flew for 11 hours where the sun never went down. despite our exhaustion we managed to get a train and get to our tiny hotel room and fall blissfully asleep by 7:30pm.
We found that coffee shops seem to mostly open at 10-11am. I’m not sure why and we just didn’t know how to get breakfast until we saw Denny’s. It was a good start to the day and we felt better about being lured into an American restaurant once we saw the menu.
Jessica Wandering 
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