Day 77, Wednesday, August 31

This morning I drove over to Ride West BMW in Seattle to drop the RT off for some routine maintenance. I got there bright and early and had planned to simply grab a bus or a taxi over to the airport where I’d wait pretty much all day until my plane left in the evening. As it turned out, one of the guys from the shop had to deliver a motorcycle to a client over near the airport in the early afternoon so instead of spending the day on a bench at the airport, listening to garbled PA system, I spent the day in the company of motorcycles and people who enjoy them.
The really interesting stuff didn’t actually start, though, until I got on the plane. The couple two rows behind me were both wasted drunk and started getting into a shouting match and a full on fight with each other just before the plane was about to pull away from the gate. The guys behind me alerted the stewardess and she had security come on the plane and yank the couple off. Everybody around them cheered for the security guy when he made them leave. Problem is that their bags were already packed and the entire plane would have to be unloaded if they were pulled off. Instead they were escorted back onto the plane about 10 mins later, accompanied by an air marshal carrying a straight jacket. The couple was seated separately on the plane and that was the end of the entertainment for the rest of the flight.
I forgot to get pictures of Archie and Bobbi before leaving their place this morning but I'll certainly get them on one of my return trips through Seattle