Seattle/Vancouver Scorecard
Actual content (like a football preview) coming very soon. Meanwhile…
- United standby rules 1, originally-scheduled 12:18 AM PDT (3:18 AM EDT) arrivals SEA 0
- Evergreen-flanked highways 405, concrete jungles 5
- Canadian Olympic coverage 99, US coverage 5
- Canadian Olympic medals 7, US medals 76 (at last count)
- Canadian border at White Rock, BC 60, US border at Blaine, WA 10 (low score wins here)
- Pacific Northwest/Lower Mainland rain 2, Vancouver touring plans 1
- Modern technology 1, freshman BT bus schedule confusion 0 (press one button and say my name in Blacksburg, and within seconds I’m talking to you from a fish-and-chips shop in west Vancouver, British Columbia)
- Josh’s Canadian coin collection 7, circulation 1 (still couldn’t find the St. Croix quarter…)
- Garmin iQue several million, geographic confusion 0
- Seattle high 68°, Richmond high 85° (again, low score wins)
- Josh’s Denver-mint state quarter collection 2, circulation 20 (yeah, that didn’t work so well)
- New states on the return trip 1, delays :45
- Said state’s sales tax at SFO about 9%, Josh’s wallet 0
- Hotwiring a Dulles hotel $83, 1:20 AM IAD-Richmond drives 0