Back in the USSA!

Made it back to The Homeland last night after a very long January 7. The only glitch came when the US immigration computers at Sea-Tac (and nationwide, we were told) crashed about a quarter way through our 747 load of passengers trying to process back in. If we'd been about 10 spaces ahead, we would have gotten through before the crash. Oh well.

After about a 45 minute wait, they finally managed to get something back online to process US and Canadian passport holders. A friend who dutifully waited in the cell phone lot for us transported us back to Olympia which seems preternaturally quiet after Vietnam.

Needless to say, I feel somewhat disoriented after the transition. I have a LOT of material and thoughts to process and will do that here, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are some photos of what the whole trip was about.