I'm resting a couple of days in Seattle before meandering on to Minneapolis. Here's what I've been up to:

• 10:45 PM PT: @jmcclure Miss you too, jeffie dear. Scritch Fang for me and tell them I'll be home Sunday and will be ready to administer Epic Pettings.
• 12:34 AM PT: On plane to Minneapolis. The chatty six-year-old across the aisle may not survive the trip. We'll see.
• 5:55 AM CT: Good morning, Minneapolis. Yes, my hair always sticks up like this in the morning, thanks for asking...
• 6:02 AM CT: http://ping.fm/p/q6I41 - The scrum to get off the plane and get coffee after a red-eye. Seat 33? You're gonna wait a while.
• 3:56 PM CT: After a long, luscious nap, I am finally awake in the Hugart household. *yawn* *stretch* Stupid red-eye flights.

I'm resting a couple of days in Seattle before meandering on to Minneapolis. Here's what I've been up to:

I'm resting a couple of days in Seattle before meandering on to Minneapolis. Here's what I've been up to:

• 11:04 AM PT: Continuing being a bum, and by 'being a bum' I mean 'uploading and tagging a lot of photos while thinking HEY LUNCH WOULD BE AWESOME'
• 3:41 PM PT: This activity could be more accurately described as 'reading' if I perhaps actually had my eyes open a bit more frequently.
• 7:01 PM PT: Ha! This is the best road sign EVAR. (Darned compfight distracting me again!) http://flic.kr/p/pqYJK (via @add1sun)
• 7:49 PM PT: Missing @jmcclure. The world's a beautiful place, but I like it better when he explores it with me.
• 10:43 PM PT: RT @tweetmeme Daria DVD news: Coming Soon info for Daria | TVShowsOnDVD.com http://tinyurl.com/nn28g6

Tickets are booked to Paris; tickets are booked to San Francisco.

We will be six in San Francisco, with tagalong extras depending on the day and the inclination of our local friends.  We have nebulous plans:  look for us in the cheap seats at the Giants-Astros game on July 4.  I'll be the one in the bleachers with the beer; that's all you need to find me in the crowd, right?  We'll do a night tour of Alcatraz and I'll relearn the San Francisco bus system and pictures, pictures, pictures!

A week in San Francisco.  We'll celebrate Suzan's birthday and tag along behind Asai in Chinatown.  Asai learned last night there's a temple there; amidst the touristy time and stomping all over the city, we'll probably take a few minutes for prayers. 

The twitter-followers know I've been working on this for a while, but I haven't mentioned it here because I didn't want to jinx myself. Regardless, my part in the process is done:

['Assembly no longer required (2)' on flickr]

I should have started this project years ago, but I was too chickenshit to do it. Years ago, on a visit to Heather and Andy, Heather offered to assemble a quilt top for me if I bought the fabric. I did, and she started working on it, but life eventually became too busy and she sent the pieces back to me, with all of the instructions and equipment I'd need to get started.

The box held enough fabric and squares to do at least two quilts.

[Original on flickr: Gravity, 2 of 4]

The photos from Seattle are up, and as is typical, the one that is most memorable to me isn't even from Seattle. It's from Bellingham, from a chance moment at a street carnival that I almost didn't even photograph because I didn't think I'd get anything useful.

(Adam, which park was this? Larrabee?)

Details soon. This weekend, I think. For now, though, the photoset is tagged, bagged, and available on flickr.

Amy packs up, leaves Washington state, and flies to Arkansas. Culture shock in 3...2...1. 24 hours of travel tweets.

Final full day in Washington state. Tweets from Seattle, day 9.

When writing these blurbs in advance, I realized I had no idea what this day would hold. Tweets from Seattle, day 8.

A day spent off the grid. Tweets from Seattle, day 7.