Very very early start this morning with a rude awakening from the alarm at 4am - not a good wake up call and certainly our earliest start since before we left on our sabbatical! Still we are up, final things packed and heading to the airport at 5am for our early morning flight from Vancouver to Chicago, before onwards to New York.
After checking in and going through USA immigration and customs at the airport, which should make things much more speedy for our connection in Chicago, we have some breakfast before boarding our 7.30am flight. This is in fact flight number 19 and we can't quite believe that after this one only have two to go.
The man sat next to Mr M immediately recognises Mr M's Scottish accent and proceeds to tell the entire plane of Canadians that people from Scotland were on the plane and what a great place Scotland was and of his distant Scottish relatives - his poor children were even dragged up to meet us! He (Tom - we got to know him on first name terms) also was telling us he has relatives and has even visited Chingford, where half of my family are from - it makes you realise how small the world actually is.
The flight is good, very smooth and just 3 hours as there is a strong tail wind and we are soon landing in Chicago, with a couple of hours wait for lunch before our next flight.
Next flight to New York is only two hours flying time (will have to tot up the total amount of flying time completed in the next statistics update!). I enjoy my window seat and despite a bit of a bumpy landing at LaGuardia Airport there are really great views as we come in of all the lights of New York. We both realise how excited we are to have made it this far - our last stop before going home.
We are extremely pleased to see our bags waiting for us when we land, after the shenanigans on the last internal flights we did in the USA. Next its a high speed (high danger) taxi ride to our hotel, and again we enjoy some great views of the city at night. All checked in we decide to have a little room service as it is by now a little late to find somewhere close by for tea (despite being in the city that never sleeps!) and we certainly go to bed well fed and watered and tired after our big travelling day across
America.
Mrs M
After checking in and going through USA immigration and customs at the airport, which should make things much more speedy for our connection in Chicago, we have some breakfast before boarding our 7.30am flight. This is in fact flight number 19 and we can't quite believe that after this one only have two to go.
The man sat next to Mr M immediately recognises Mr M's Scottish accent and proceeds to tell the entire plane of Canadians that people from Scotland were on the plane and what a great place Scotland was and of his distant Scottish relatives - his poor children were even dragged up to meet us! He (Tom - we got to know him on first name terms) also was telling us he has relatives and has even visited Chingford, where half of my family are from - it makes you realise how small the world actually is.
The flight is good, very smooth and just 3 hours as there is a strong tail wind and we are soon landing in Chicago, with a couple of hours wait for lunch before our next flight.
Next flight to New York is only two hours flying time (will have to tot up the total amount of flying time completed in the next statistics update!). I enjoy my window seat and despite a bit of a bumpy landing at LaGuardia Airport there are really great views as we come in of all the lights of New York. We both realise how excited we are to have made it this far - our last stop before going home.
We are extremely pleased to see our bags waiting for us when we land, after the shenanigans on the last internal flights we did in the USA. Next its a high speed (high danger) taxi ride to our hotel, and again we enjoy some great views of the city at night. All checked in we decide to have a little room service as it is by now a little late to find somewhere close by for tea (despite being in the city that never sleeps!) and we certainly go to bed well fed and watered and tired after our big travelling day across
America.
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| A room service treat (complete with proper cup of tea!) |
Mrs M
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