Got up early to catch a flight from Paine Field in Everett down to San Francisco to attend Dave’s Uncle’s funeral service. We didn’t make the cutoff for checked bags – but they give 5 minutes grace – for which we had one minute left. We don’t normally cut it that close, but a Starbucks fiasco getting coffee delayed us. After an uneventful flight, we got our rental car and started off for the memorial location. It was a nice service. After which a family dinner had been arranged at a nearby restaurant. We came out of the restaurant to discover someone had smashed in the window of the rental car and stolen my laptop bag. Fortunately the computer itself was not in the bag. The idiot thief left the computer where I had put it on the floor right next to the bag when I finished catching up on emails on the way to the memorial. Unfortunately, I had packed my medications in the carry on computer bag (like you are supposed to). Sigh.
I called 911, but unclear how long we would have to sit around the parking lot waiting. Could be hours. And we had a 90 minute drive in front of us to reach the location where the internment ceremony would be held with full military honors the next day. So we elected to head for the hotel. Along the way, fighting with Alamo about where to pick up a replacement rental car. Sigh.
The next couple of days was spent calling the doctor’s office to get medications replaced. Complicated as the most critical one was prescribed in Mexico not in the US. And replacing the computer’s power cord and assorted other cables. Lets hear it for Amazon locker delivery!
When not hassling with all that nonsense, we had a great time wine tasting. Best find was Hook and Ladder(https://www.hookandladderwinery.com/) – started by same family that started DeLoach. Great wines at a rational price.
