It seems that everyone’s leaving town for a real long weekend, by plane, train, and automobile. Oh, and ferries too.

Surprisingly, you can take fireworks on a ferry: “Ferry authorities remind passengers to carry only legal fireworks on the boats: sparklers, ground spinners, multiaerials, Roman candles, parachutes and cone-and-fountains. Legal fireworks should be packaged so they can be quickly checked by State Patrol troopers” [P-I ^[1]]. All of the passes are supposed to be open, and Sea Tac is supposed to be a madhouse–around 110,000 people, when usually there are only around 80,000 [P-I ^[2]].

I’ve always had this ridiculous fantasy of flying across the country on the Fourth of July and seeing fireworks displays from up above. Oh hush, you think it sounds nice too.

Anyway, everyone and their brother is suggesting that you leave for wherever you’re going way ahead of time and be prepared to wait at whatever spot you end up. Please be careful, and do not light yourselves on fire with your legally carried fireworks.