First challenge was to get out of Portland. The MAX ride took 1 1/2 hours, including a 15 minute squat downtown for a medical emergency on a preceding train. Actually auto traffic was moving well on the Sunset and Banfield - which made us think we should have listened to Janet - however I 205 north was a nearly immobile sea of brake lights. Not that we needed to hurry. The airport was deserted, really - no lines at check-in or the security screening. For some reason never fully explained the Air Canada plane from Vancouver (clunker of a vintage prop jet) was about an hour late, so our 7:50 flight left around 9... no wait, we sat on the tarmac for half an hour, once again no explanation.
So thank God for the three hour layover in Vancouver we had groused about. The Vancouver airport managed to keep us entertained for what was left of the layover with the most screwed up transit process we have ever encountered - through customs, almost out of the terminal, to the China Airlines ticket counter, and through a 30 minute understaffed security check, all with sparse (albeit bilingual) directional signage. The international terminal is new and gorgeous - and they make you earn your way to it and through it.
Now in Taipei. About to board for Yangon. Decent, tho long (13 hr) flight.
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