All our bags are packed, we're ready to go ...

With just 36 hours or so to go, everybody is pretty much packed and ready. Not just packed, but condensed into a single carry-on plus backpack for every person, and that includes a cartop carrier!

A couple of minor crises have been resolved along the way.

• Matt's hostel card never arrived, so we'll have to either replace it for free in Seattle or rely on the email confirmation they're sending him. Or buy a new one when we get to Luxembourg. 
• Patte couldn't decide which camera to take, but she resolved that. 
• The mifi that was originally ordered was not as advertised, so a complaint was lodged with Amazon and a new mifi was ordered. The international data SIM works great in it and it's ready to go too. 
• Airport transport was resolved by the sudden move of Garrett (the youngest Doran sibling) to Seattle. He's going to deliver half the party to the airport and Jon's going to deliver the other. Then he's going to house-site for Brian and Bridget, which resolved yet another small problem (who would feed their cats?!). 
• Ken got a new, smaller, CPAP, that doesn't wheeze and snorfle like a wild animal. Those sharing a room with him will be most grateful (some of them having had to share a room with the old one on the Alaska adventure!). 
• Sarah and Jon had two extra international capable phones lying about, so Brian and Bridget are adding one to their T-Mobile account for Matt to use. 

The only thing left to do now is for everybody to converge on Sarah's house Tuesday afternoon/evening. We'll have a little party, do a bag check, do a last minute run to Fred Meyer's to get whatever is missing from people's bags, sleep (doubtful), then be off to the airport bright and early Wednesday morning.

Woohoo!