The glamor of business travel, continued…

After spending five weeks out of six in Connecticut, last week I was back in Everett. I didn’t take either camera with me on any of the Connecticut trips; I didn’t have much of a chance to wander around looking for anything interesting. But for this trip, I figured it might be fun to get a little time lapse of the ferry coming and going from Mukilteo. Turns out to be not that interesting, but so it goes.

While letting the camera run, I met a group of folks from Ukraine – a man, his wife, and his parents. I tried my very rusty Russian on them and we chatted for a while. The parents didn’t speak any English and I’ve lost nearly all my Russian so it wasn’t much of a conversation. My Soviet army belt buckle got a reaction, though.

The GoPro didn’t do a very good job of capturing the light. It’s automatic shutter controls keep it from showing the fading light as the sun set.

Much to my surprise (not), it rained half the time I was there, clear for the first and last days. My flight left Seattle just before sunset. On the climb out, we had a nice view of Mt. Ranier, the last rays of the day’s sun bathing the snow capped summit in pink.

On the mundane side, I’ve managed to get a different kind of rental car on each trip – seven in a row now. This time was a Chevy Malibu. It’s the first rental I’ve had with automatic head lights. I discovered that the intermittent windshield wipers change speed – on one setting they were intermittent when driving slowly but went to constant when I got over about 40mph. The wonders of technology.