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Our West Coast vacation is over.

This morning my sister drove us to Sea-Tac on her way to work so we could catch our flight back to Tampa. It was a little weird tagging our own luggage for Alaska Airlines but again our TSA PreCheck status made the overall process of getting to our gate relatively smooth. The flight was fine too … until we were waiting for our luggage. One of our suitcases came out right away, but there was no sign of the second. And of course, that one had our wine in it that we got four days ago. There were a lot of people also missing their bags but for some reason Alaska Airlines knew our bag was missing. Why they couldn’t have had someone at bag claim to tell us this I don’t know and the baggage agent was unfriendly and unhelpful. All he could tell us was our bag would be delivered to our house and gave us a $20 voucher. Ouch. And as of tonight, our bag hasn’t arrived.

At any rate, other than that slight downer at the end, our West Coast road trip vacation was a success! We had a great time, saw family and friends, did a ton of stuff, saw amazing sights, and visited 5 states (Nevada, Arizona (crossed the border at the Hoover Dam), California, Oregon, and Washington) over the past 10 days. Even so, it’s good to be home (even if I have to go back to work tomorrow).