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[HairOfTheDog]

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Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE

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[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I never knew that. And you can put a bag under the seat, didn't know that either:)

Well, I'll look at different bags today, and then decide. Thanks for all the info.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

They can go under the seat in front of you, if they fit there. The overhead compartments are bigger. And there will be people to help lift it up overhead if needed, if you can't with your wrist.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

This is the set I found on line at Wal Mart.

I'm thinking with this, I can try to get everything in the middle size one, if it doesn't work, I'll have to use the bigger one. But I'd have options, and the whole set is only $30. The back pack thingy is $20.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Hey - that's a really good deal. Can't go wrong with that!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I think this is the best way to go, as long as our Walmart has them...

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah - as long as they are reasonably well made, they ought to hold up long enough to be easily worth that price!

[HairOfTheDog]

This will be your first view of Washington next week :~D

They took this on Ruthy and Ramius's trip up here from Florida day before yesterday

[BladeRider]

This will be your first view of Washington next week :~D

If I remember correctly from my trip to Seattle last year you can see Mt St. Helens from the plane can't you?

[HairOfTheDog]

That's either St. Helens or Mount Adams in the far distance beyond Rainier in that picture.

If you're approaching from the south, you can often see St. Helens.

I took this picture on our flight to Arizona last year. St. Helens was steaming that day, through a little hole in the clouds. This was early spring, lots of snow still.

This is Puget Sound, Port of Tacoma... if you know where to look under that row of little cotton-ball clouds, you could see our beach house :~D

[ecurbh]

That's either St. Helens or Mount Adams in the far distance beyond Rainier in that picture.

I'm not sure I agree a hunnerd percent with your police work there, Hair. ;~D

If they're coming into Seattle, that pic's gotta be looking north, which would probably make Mt. Baker the one in the distance.

[HairOfTheDog]

I'll let Ramius tell me I'm wrong, but I think they're North of Rainier looking South. I don't think they'd be coming in that far South of Rainier on a path from Chicago.

[ecurbh]

I guess every flight I've taken in and out of here has been to Denver (or Vegas), and they've all gone between Rainer and St. Helens/Adams.

[FrogInABlender]

Another thing you might want to do is to tie something highly visible and unique to the handle of your bag because EVERYBODY has a black or navyblue rolling bag and it's a real pain to try to read the name tag on every one of them as they go around on the baggage carousel to figure out which one is yours. Red bandannas tied to the handle are fairly common, so you might want to try something else. I used a loud striped sock one time and some strangely colored craft ribbon another time. But you don't want it to be too big or it'll get hung on the conveyors and they'll make you take it off.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I wouldn't try to navigate by that cascades map for mountain placement, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get google to give me a better one. ;~D

[BladeRider]

Another thing you might want to do is to tie something highly visible and unique to the handle of your bag....

Yes! That does help. I have a shamrock scarf tied to the handle of mine.

[HairOfTheDog]

Talked to R&R on the phone... They did come in from the North... And that's St. Helens behind Rainier.

[ecurbh]

In that case, I agree a hunnerd percent with your police work, there. ;~D

[HairOfTheDog]

Ya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates so he changed his name to J2L 4685? ;~)

[FrogInABlender]

GROOOOOAN!

[HairOfTheDog]

GRIN :~D