Home...almost

We are in Portland's airport waiting for our final leg home to Eugene. This adventure is about to come to an end. We have been up since 3am Nice time which is about 5 months Eugene time! Sarah has dozed off next to me. Bit of a culture shock being back: all one language (and I can understand it),  have to order a specific beer rather than simply saying "un bier", we know where bathrooms are and how they work, money is familuar if not pretty (I really like using the equivelent of 1 and 2 dollar coins), Burger King smells good, and cell phones work (after I spent 30min. with the Sprint folks getting Sarah's phone "reset"). We ended up getting a room at Primier Classic Hotel which is basically travelers hotel with modular rooms and a moulded plastic bathroom after piling all our stuff on a city bus. Made arrangements with desk person to make sure taxi will take us to the airport at 3:30am. The desk clerk we made this arrangement with turns out to be they guy who takes us to the airport. Pretty much uneventful long flight. They now have individual video in the seat backs so it was marathon movies. 

Might continue to update this blog for a while with pics and thoughts on the trip. Don't know if I will do anything with it otherwise. Travel logs are one thing. What we had for dinner or what the latest episode of CSI was is another. It's been fun...........