12:45 we are finally at Solitude having trading the Caravan for a Ford Flex AWD. In the parking lot eating 7-11 sandwich.
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So here it is1:30am after the 11hr drive, instead of a AWD SUV we have a Dodge Caravan, had a awesome dinner of San Fransisco sourdough with canned Chey Boyardie ravioli and a supermarket brand tomato basil bisque soup, and finally Dave goes to get a much wanted shower when the spigot head falls off. WTF!
After 11 hr drive we’ve finally made it. Only rental left at Slc is a dodge caravan. It’s starting to snow seriously. Dinner of champs.
Hanging out at SFO with a couple more hours till our connector to SLC. Hopefully the forecast snow pans out. Stay tuned
My row neighbor on the plane asked me what kind of work I did after seeing the MultiCam pack and GPS. I told him, “various things,” in Nihongo, and after a bit of conversation when he found out I was travelling on a US passport, his suspicions were confirmed that I was “that guy”… He probably thought I was scribbling all kinds of spook stuff in my tiny rite-in-the-rain notepad with my space pen when all I was doing was calculating the dollar value of all the otaku stuff I was bringing back for the customs form using the calculator on the GPS!
(0)Back in Hawaii. My connection in NGO was a little tight. No sooner had I disembarked the plane from CTS and gotten out my next boarding pass to check the boarding time that I discovered that there were only 30-minutes to get through security and exit immigration and make it to the gate. Luckily boarding was running late, so I had a little tim to get my stuff in order gateside after unwearing the thermal baselayers in the bathroom. Didn’t have any time to buy anything in NGO, but as it was after 21:00, everything was long closed anyway… wouldn’t have minded a bath though.
(0)Mostly packed up now. Off to look for some odds and ends like pen refills, 6mm tubing, and 2100 milliamp/hour NiMH AA batteries…
(0)You know it’s going to be a good snow day when you have to use the bootpack just to get from the ticket window to the gondola base!
I caught the first bus to Sapporo Kokusai on Monday to get a last riding day in before leaving. The bus lady said that if the resort was closed, the bus would return to Sapporo – after all, it was so early that the employees probably hadn’t shown up at the resort yet, so there was no way to check this early. Everyone was apparently sleeping in late, as I had the entire bus to myself on the drive over. Still, the bus lady got on the PA for the announcements: She could have just come over and told me directly… Continue reading ‘Choke-tastic’
You either have to stay the whole season or be really lucky to get an awesome powder day in Niseko. When I got there on Friday, the snow was falling heavily, but the high winds that are typically associated with the storms that bring in the snow closed the resorts for the day. The winds were nowhere near as bad as the time I was there several years ago and got blocked on my last riding day, so at least the snow was accumulating instead of blowing away to cover the surrounding farming plain. Continue reading ‘Typical Niseko’