Ryan and I started off for our adventure with one last look the apartment, our cube (which somehow, due to ryan's tetris skills and my pained packing of boxes, fit all of our stuff) and of course, our lovely "front yard" - dolores park. Breakfast one last time at DPC, and then we were off. Our most stressful travel problem so far was the flight checkin at SFO. They wouldn't let us on the plane without proof of a return ticket from Beirut. We have a return ticket, but it is from tel aviv, which is not OK with the folks who let you in to Lebanon. They were quite sure Lebanon would not let us in without it, so two super nice airline ladies took pity on us and sold us a refundable ticket from
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