{"id":14183,"date":"2017-07-31T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:20:42","slug":"logistics-it-was-never-going-to-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=14183","title":{"rendered":"Logistics &#8211; It Was Never Going To Be Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I booked my tickets, I must have thought July had 32 days.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I get back from Seattle into LAX at 11:25 PM.\u00a0 Sadly, knowing what a disaster that airport is, I suspect we&#8217;ll land and then taxi for 45 minutes, meaning I should be out to the curb waiting for a Lyft by 12:30 AM.\u00a0 This wouldn&#8217;t be such a huge problem except my next flight back out is not 36 hours away&#8230; it&#8217;s 10 hours.\u00a0 I realized this just a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I had toyed with just getting a hotel room down by the airport but honestly it was easily $100&#8230; and I needed to swap out my bags anyway from the Washingtonian clothes for my Vietnam gear.\u00a0 I was able to do a load of laundry at my Seattle airbnb which helps tremendously but I didn&#8217;t know that would be possible before flying up here.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a little more planning and foresight would have done wonders.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m burned out on planning.\u00a0 There&#8217;s been too much of it recently&#8230; and yet I suppose not nearly enough.<\/p>\n<p>This all has contributed to the throwing up of my hands on the ferry ride today out onto Puget Sound.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never actually been on a car ferry before and would probably even enjoy the experience&#8230; but my head just can&#8217;t accept that it&#8217;s apparently a per-car fare and not per-person and thus it feels like I&#8217;m being discriminated against as a solo traveler.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not obviously&#8230; but it FEELS that way.\u00a0 Or maybe I&#8217;m just feeling the soreness of this weekend&#8217;s races and have a post-running slump.\u00a0 The fact that I haven&#8217;t recently experienced the pre- or post- or frankly the as-it-happens running high is neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a change in country will help&#8230; or perhaps it will hinder.\u00a0 Who can say anymore?<\/p>\n<p>I did however mock this up a few weeks back when I first signed up for this adventure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13870 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-830x1245.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-230x345.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon-350x525.jpg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Good-Morning-VietKevin-The-DaNang-Marathon.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so I&#8217;ll spend the day in Seattle waiting for my cheap flight back to LAX.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling very stupid.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thirty-two days hath July&#8230;<\/em> that&#8217;s a thing, right?\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I booked my tickets, I must have thought July had 32 days. 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