In Seattle

I'm in seattle now. Took three flights yesterday.

One from Managua which was an hour late. Made me nervous as I had to connect to another flight shortly after and had to clear customs. Two years ago, when returning to Managua through Canada I got a full search done on the contents of my bags and my wallet. The guy was seriously desperate to find something on me. He was swiping down my money with detection swabs, he was swiping down the bottom of my bag pockets with swabs and even took a candle I got as a gift to another machine to hav it checked out.

So what would the US customs be like when they see that I was in Peru and Nicaragua?

Fortunately, they were easy. He asked why I went to so many countries, thought it was a good idea that I take a break from programming and waved me through!

I flew next to Salt Lake City. I had a window seat. In between was an American and on the Aisle was a japanese girl wearing a Sister Something name tag. She was a mormon missionary. So the guy in between got a 'have you invited Jesus into your life' speech. What was funny to me is that the phrasing sounded so familiar like something right out of a movie or comedy. He was a good sport and by the end of the flight had a jesus postcard, some literature, and another card with an invitation to the church. She was working with another missionary who was seated separately.

Salt Lake city, from the plane and airport looked really cool. A super flat city, surrounded by mountains. I also saw a yellowy lake which I imagine is the salt lake.

Flying to Seattle... it's a jog backwards if you think about it la-salt lake-seattle, but that's how Delta works right now - I sat next to a guy from Boeing working on a 787 plane that is to be made of composite materials instead of aluminum. Interesting, but I imagine it will be a challenge to, uh, well, get that, uh, project, uh, off the ground. Sorry.