We started the last day before leaving at a local coffee shop to go over final lists and finish our tasks by bike before it got too hot. Not sure that worked but we did get everything done by early afternoon in two trips. That left mainly final packing and house chores. We are using different luggage and packing techniques for this trip and spent extra time going over, ok fiddling, with everything before we finally zipped the bags up and went back to generating more emails. If nothing else we seem to have captured that elusive "Rick Steves" look that is so popular now.
The final rush before declaring the trip on saw us in front of our computers pumping out emails to those we work with. I had general plan update deadlines, ongoing parkway fire problems and other issues, duck pond fish kill drama and more to pass along. The idea is that these and our other many important activities will stay behind in the capable hands of others while we explore and learn more about the bigger world around us and hopefully bring some fresh ideas and solutions home afterwards. Right now we'll probably settle for the break and sometimes restful distraction that comes with our travels.
Our friends Russ and Martha kindly offered to give us a late night lift to the station so we've started this multimodal public transportation adventure in an EV. That fits well with our intent. We're hanging out in the station which is still under renovation to restore historic features and become a more complete multimodal facility. Our midnight train is running about 45 minutes late so it will actually be tomorrow when we actually board for this next adventure. Maybe this counts as day 0 and 1 then?
Check out those clean color coordinated bags & we'll see how they hold up to baggage handlers.
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