Printing my tickets from the self-check kiosk. Heading toward the security check at London-Heathrow.
You are now entering security screening.
I make it through security and wait in the lounge. Heading to the gate, I pass a soldier painting saluting Goodbye.
Departing London Heathrow. Breakfast.
London Heathrow to Washington Dulles.
The east coast.
Landed at Washington Dulles Airport.
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US Customs and Border Protection: Please wait behind yellow line for next available officer.
Checking the reader board for my transfer to Seattle. Boarding the plane at gate C14.
As I board the plane, all the TVs on the back of the seats were turned to CBS where President Obama was giving a special report on the Newtown Shootings.
The inflight magazine features an article about the tunnel their drilling under Seattle's viaduct. Snow is visible as we fly over Minnesota.
We touch down at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to refuel, because the plane was heading into 175 mph winds.
Head down the runway and up over the frozen lakes of Minnesota.
The American grid system.
The moon over the cloud line. I-5 traffic.
Raindrops on the plane window.
Sea-Tac Airport. The family drove by to pick me up.
Brake lights. Christmas lights... back home!
