Day 19 - Paris to home!

Our last travel day was long but uneventful. We left our airport hotel at CDG after breakfast, and within 30 minutes we were through security and walking to our gate. We flew from Paris to Seattle (10 1/2 hours). I probably should have tried to sleep some but instead watched 4 movies and wrote some more blog material.

We did get a nice view of Iceland, and Greenland on the flight home.

SEA was a nightmare for anyone with limited time (as in 3 hours or less) to make a connection.  They said immigration wait was at least 2 hours for US and Canadian citizens and "much longer" for others.  We had the option to  download and fill out the mobile passport app while we were in line, and as soon we got that done we could bypass the line and go directly to baggage claim so we did that.  Baggage claim had all the conveyors totally full of luggage and  the perimeter had bags lined up 5-10 deep along all the walls as there were hundreds of people waiting to get through immigration.

After we bypassed immigration and got our one checked bag it took almost an hour to get through the customs line and almost as long to get back through security.  Our plane landed at 1130 and we didn't get to our connecting gate until just after 2.   Fortunately our flight didn't leave until 320.

From Seattle it was a quick flight back to Portland. We then took the train from the airport to the transit center near our house, and got a ride home from Guber,  "Guber" being a contraction of our friend Greg and Uber, our personal Uber. 😀   Thanks Greg for picking us up, and for taking us to the airport 3 weeks ago.   We got home about 530 PM. or about 230 AM Paris time.  Very tired,but thankful for being home safely.