Phase 3...now complete (Thanks Judy & Alvin for the hospitality!)

There's a habit that Kier and I have gotten into when we travel...we break our trip down into phases.  For instance, traveling from home to Bangor was Phase 1, then Bangor to Saco was Phase 2, and the bus trip from Portland to Boston was Phase 3...you get the picture.  I know it probably sounds odd, but for us it helps getting our heads around the trip and kind of relates to that list thing and being able to scratch stuff off when completed.  As we finish each "phase" of our trip, we make note of it....as we were driving into Logan on the bus I turned to Kier and said "Phase 3, now complete".  I know it sounds like something Captain Kirk would say to Spock on the Starship Enterprise while Bones looks on with that ever concerned look on his face, but hey, it works for us.  And by the way Captain Kirk...I love your website (Priceline.com)!!!

So here is Kier, relaxing in the boarding lounge awaiting our flight to be called...and the commencement of Phase 4 of our journey!!

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY:  Not all seats on the bus are equal.  Far from it!  When Kier and I boarded the Concord Bus in Portland, we were almost the last ones on, so needless to say, there were no empty seats together.  As it was, we were lucky to get 2 across the aisle from each other.  We were darn near in the washroom we were so far back.  (My friend Scott would no doubt say that I should be very familiar with the washroom on a bus, as he and his fellow baseball players used to lock me in there on road trips to Montreal!  Perhaps that's why I had an aversion to using the washroom on this trip??)  Kier's seat wasn't too awful bad, but mine...well, apparently it was for someone vertically challenged.  It made an airplane seat look roomy!!  Enough said!!  Who knew that there was a difference between bus seats depending upon where they are in the bus.  Now there's something you'd think my father would have told me, being that he'd been on them so often.  But I'm guessing that he probably never sat in the back of the bus...a bit hard to drive from there ;)