Packup and clean, bus and taxi, crashing at A's, pike place shopping, chilling out, great Mexican food, farewell to I at the Airport [Tue 20]

 This was the last day with I, the departure flight was in the evening, and it was the end of a major leg of my journey in Seattle.

In the morning I cleaned up most of the place while I worked. Closer to our departure time, I did the dishes, did the last moment checkup and we were all set to go. I left my work earlier than I'd been doing regularly, because skipping work in the middle of the day, early at 9am PDT didn't make a whole lotta sense.

We took a bus from our place to the large park, from where we got into an online taxi. The Punjabi driver who had been in Seattle for longer than we'd be born, as he said, took us by A's work where he handed us the apartment keys. We went into his place, set down our bags, and got travelling again. Once again we went to Pike Marketplace, and this time around we explored the inner depths of the place. It was cool enough that I bought a few bars of soap as gift for friends, and I bought a book on the japanese folklore of ghosts.

I and I got lunch at a mexican place nearby A's place, it was fantastic, even though we didn't finish most of it despite not ordering much, the achaars they had were exactly like the ones we have in Nepal, the tomato ones. If they sold by the volume, I'd buy them on the regular and eat it with rice dal and tarkari, that's how good it was.

Back at A's place, we just killed a couple of hours talking, making future plans. We found out one of I's friend was in Seattle and single and nobody had introduced us, and folks were sad and disappointed about it. Deep into the evening, we packed up and headed to the airport several hours early because I didn't want time to waste in the security etc. Fortunately it went well and there was more than enough hours to spare before the flight apparently. I took the train back and it was gloomy, sad, a new phase of my stay. Chatted up a bunch with my friend P.K.

Tired and sleepy back home, I went to bed pretty early on. My allergies were getting worse and it was becoming a concern.