To Miami

My day started out with a nice run with Marnie at 5:30 and then a big breakfast w/ J. Everything was going perfectly as planned- Sunshine and all. We walked the mile to the train that takes you from Portland to the airport. However, after waiting for awhile we found out that the train was broken and they were waiting for repair. Ugg- of all days! After waiting as long as we could we decided to take a cab. A nice lady gave us the number for the cab and told us to ask for the promo rate (which ended up saving us 20 dollars). We split the cab with a lady who was heading to SF. It as interesting to talk to her. She had been a chef for many years in Alaska and the last five years owned a wine bar on the Oregon Coast. We will have to check out her place. We made it on our flight on time even with Jeff getting searched in security. OUr flight to SF went smoothly and then we went straight to our flight to Miami- which made me sweat because we had to go in and out of security (I lost my pink Nelgene) because we switched airlines. I was wearing a Calvin shirt and a guy came up to us saying he went to Calvin as well. He was finishing an "earth ship" I hadn't heard of this but it's a sustainable home made of old tires. You always meet interesting people when wearing a Calvin shirt. He probably thought the same thing about me "met a girl going to Haiti to make arms and legs fr people." We arrived in LA around 9:30, had some dinner of packed PB&J's, checks mix, and banana- trying to travel cheap here...which brings us to the next point- setting up camp in the airport. We rolled out our sleeping bags in a corner- held onto our luggage and tried to sleep. Only problem was that I hadn't thought about the stupid announcements every 15 minutes "It is now 3AM...It is now 3:15AM....It is now 3:45AM....!!