Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Back Home -- What A Great Country! -- August 11, 2021

Started out about two weeks ago; returned home today.

Alaska Airlines: DFW to PDX. Three-hour flight. Uneventful. $150 or something like that.

Uber: PDX to daughter's home in Portland, OR. $50 for twelve miles, thirty minutes. A full day in Portland.

POV: daughter's home to Amtrak.

Amtrak: Union Station, Portland, OR, to Whitefish, MT. $80 one way. Twelve hours overnight, through the Rocky Mountains. Train on schedule for entire journey.

POV: sister picked me up at Whitefish; ten days +/- on Flathead Lake, MT (Lakeside, MT) for family reunion. About a 30-mile ride from Whitefish to Flathead Lake home.

POV: return to Amtrak station. Whitefish, MT, return to Portland, OR. $80 one way. Twelve hours overnight, through the Rocky Mountains. Train on schedule for entire journey.

By foot: walked from train station, downtown Portland, to light rail station in the Rose Quarter. Probably about three/fourths mile. Across the Broadway Bridge. Beautiful walk.

MAX, blue line: light rail to Gresham, Oregon. About thirty minutes. $2.50 (vs $40  by Uber). But in fact it's free. No one checks and the only folks who pay are tourists. I gave my "ticket" to another person. I don't think she knew what it was. I didn't know her story and didn't ask; she was in a deep conversation with an imaginary friend.

By foot: sixteen minutes from Max blue line to granddaughter's home. A full day with daughter, husband, and twin grandsons.

POV: to Portland airport. Noted after going through TSA Security that I had booked wrong destination airport. LOL. We always fly in / out of DFW. How I booked this ticket to Love Field in Dallas I will never know. 

Alaska Airlines: PDX to LUV, Three hour flight. $150 or something like that.

POV: LUV to home in Euless, TX, about twenty minutes. 

Trip uneventful. People incredibly nice all along the way.

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Lana Del Rey -- Doin' Time

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