Dear readers of the Blanchard blog - welcome to the first installment of our actual on-the-way blog. We departed Wenatchee's Pangborn airport via Hoizon Air for Seattle at which time Jim got throughly checked out by TSA. This was mostly due to his metal suspender clips. Lesson here is don't wear mental suspenders when flying. He also got checked again at Narita Airport. We departed Seattle via NWA on an Airbus A300. It could be a nice plane but the seating and bathrooms were very small. It was a very uncomfortable trip. We did not get to sit together. Ann had [View Full Entry]

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Thought we would add a photo of what we will be gladly leaving for a few months. It is still snowing and it will be nice to get to some warmer weather. [View Full Entry]

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Still in Leavenworth awaiting "travel day". 3/30/08 Everything has been thought of and we have decided to do this trip with just a carry on bag each. From blogs that we have read, some back packers like to limit the weight of there packs to less than 33 lbs. We are allowed 50 lbs on the plane per bag... We shall see... We have had snow the last 5 days in a row. Will be nice to get out of snow country and enjoy some heat for a change. All for now, J&A [View Full Entry]

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