Domestic travel, more or less: going to Seattle for a conference. An engineering conference of all things. The theme is technology for humanitarian endeavours. We're actually presenting a paper on community forestry and mapping. Should be fun, and kind of outside of my usual routine. Like for example I'm wearing dress shoes and a jacket.

Also unusual, but unrelated, I saw someone let go of their big suitcase at the top of an escalator. She yelled as it slid all the way to the bottom. Fortunately, everyone was  off the steps  by the time it reached the bottom,  but I wouldn't want to have seen anyone in the way. And it was moving at a pretty good clip. After it reached  the bottom of the escalator  it slid for probably 5 or 6 metres before coming to stop.