0730h: The adventure begins. Mike picks us up in his Yaris. It was just barely big enough to comfortably hold the 3 of us and all our crap.
0801h: We arrive at the Ottawa airport. Both our backpacks are larger than the maximum size allowed for carry-ons and my luggage is larger than the maximum size allowed for checked bags. They only seemed concerned with weight. The maximum weight for a checked bag is 50lbs. Mine only weighed 42lbs on their scales -- phew.
1326h: We fly over a nuclear power plant somewhere in the US. It's the first time I've seen one from the air.
1759h: After getting to our hotel (The Wild Wild West), we were too tired to travel far for dinner, and there was an In-N-Out burger across the street so we ate there. They had an old-timey charm to their methods. You could watch the fry-guy start with a big bag of potatoes, wash them, cut them, fry them, salt them and finally fill the fry plates. He had a neat way of dropping the fries from up high and then quickly scooping the paper fry tray below to catch them as they fell. You could tell he'd had a lot of practice.
1856h: The end of our first day. We got to see a McSunset over the hills to the West. The air temperature was 35°C, but once the sun set, it was much easier to stand the heat.
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