A Long Day of Travel

Today was definitely one of the longest I had spent in recent memory.  I was up at 4:30 a.m. to go to Longwood with Doug.  We didn’t want to have to drive both cars back when we return from California, so it was the best option.  While he was working, I hung out at Meg’s catching up on my shows, talking to several of my children, and resting for our long trip to come.  

I picked Doug up at 1 p.m. from work.  It had been a quiet day for him with most people out of the office for a meeting.  We left the Accord at Meg’s and took a Lyft to the airport.  It was a lot cheaper than paying for parking for eight days and our driver was super helpful.  There was a long line at check-in, but security was short, so we had plenty of time to eat an early dinner.  In the end, I was very glad that we did as we wouldn’t have much to eat the rest of the day.

Our flight was delayed at the gate for a mechanical issue which made us twenty minutes late getting into San Diego.  I was really worried about that as we had to catch our flight to Oakland 40 minutes after our original plane was supposed to arrive.  Thankfully, our Oakland flight was delayed as well.  It was the easiest flight of the two as it was only an hour long and the wi-fi worked on it.  That wasn’t the case on the first flight, which made it feel a lot longer than the five hours we were on the plane.  Doug slept almost the entirety of that flight, so he really didn’t notice.  I did start the series on Apple TV called Pluribus.  It was good, just not as much as Severance.  

With all of the delays, we had very little time to get our luggage and catch the shuttle to the rental car lot before it closed.  Thankfully, everything was in our favor.  Ours were the first bags off of the plane and we were the last ones on the shuttle bus.  We pulled out of the parking lot at 11:45 p.m. just as they were starting to shut down for the night.  It was a long day of traveling, but worth it as now our vacation could begin.