On the Move Soon

Day 56  Friday 27^th May 2011  

We booked the Vancouver bus online as it appears there is no representation for this Canadian bus company at the airport and employees of the other bus companies were singularly unhelpful in giving no good advice about the Canada/USA service. Having the booking confirmed allowed us to go over to SEATAC airport again to find the departure bay. We found door 00 and went and sat amongst the cruise ship passengers who were busy trying to get themselves put on the coach that matched their differing coloured tickets. Some of the travellers looked either far too old and infirm or much too obese to be taking a cruise and I wondered how on earth they would cope once on board in their tiny cabins. We sat and waited for the Quick Shuttle bus to come in and we were now satisfied that we knew how it all fitted together and I was feeling much more knowledgeable and confident about our trip on this service on Monday (Memorial Day).

We headed back to the airport concourse and found a couple of good seats to sit and people watch and it wasn’t long before we were rewarded by the sound of commotion behind us. We stood and turned to get a better look only to find ourselves in the direct route of the resident looney who was headed our way. He stopped a few times to berate the straight frightened faces of the Korean Air check in staff who had formed a small four person strong huddle to avoid the rants of the maniac bearing down upon them with a torrent of abuse. He turned and resumed his route towards us and we lowered our heads to avoid eye contact a tactic which we had learned from previous looney encounters  throughout the trip.

Fortunately for us as he approached within a few feet a cop on a three wheel Segway turned up and the guy darted out of the concourse to the outside world, but it was too late for him as back up had already been ordered and the last we saw of him it looked like he was not going to escape the clutches of the lawmen today.

That was the sum total of our excitement for Friday save to report that we also booked our hotel in Vladivostok. We went for the more expensive digs with our own room having decided that $25 a night hostel wasn’t for us for the eleven nights we are due to spend in the city waiting for our bikes to complete their Pacific Ocean crossing.