Heading to Seattle

Jun 24th. It is time to say goodbye to San Francisco, I drive to the airport and drop off my rental car - it has served me well over the 22 days I have had it. The mileage total is 3700 miles - not bad considering I did very little or no driving on certain days as well. I check in and then head off to the security gate where my bag causes some puzzled looks from the X-ray person. I had left some groceries that I didn't use up in it so I had to give up a tin of tomatoes and one of tuna as well (possible blunt instrument?). A major loss was the tub of Vegemite which I may not be able to replace as well in the US. I did manage to remember to hold up my shorts when I took off my belt although I was tempted to waddle through the metal detector with shorts around my ankles as my belt had to be X-rayed. Even my flip flops had go through the X-ray machine as well. Anyhow, I boarded the flight and as we were approaching Seattle there was a majestic sight - Mount Rainier is enormous and is Volcano standing on its own and covered in snow and towering above the clouds.