The taxi picked us on time at 5.20am this morning, £153 return to Heathrow which is a bargain seen as there really isn't any other option to get there plus with a wheelchair to take as well it makes life so much simpler, given the fact that if we had used the coach then we would have had to go last night, not good after a 10 hour day at work. So now we are speeding along the motorway for the next hour or so. Not looking forward to the flight but I am looking forward to getting there, it's been 18 months since our last trip to Chicago and just over 2 years since we were last in SF. We arrived at the airport at 6.50am and got a very nice man to scan the passports for us, it's a lot quicker when somebody else does plus you will then probably get a seat near each other, as it turns out I got a window seat and Jane has an aisle seat so that makes things a bit easier to get in and of. Starving hungry now so had a sausage and egg, £3.75 it not overpriced and was tasty. Probably won't get anything decent to eat now until about 10.30pm tonight because the food on the plane in normally crap at the best of times.
So boarding starts at 9.40 but if memory serves me right then it's at least a 15 minute walk to the departure gate and I'm not as young as I use to be so best to set off about 9 I think, just enough time to go and get some crisps and a drink from the shop or perhaps I will treat myself to a coffee. The walk didn't take as long as I thought it was going to be so it's just a matter of waiting to board now. So my next post will be from San Francisco late this evening, the plane is due 40 minutes early at the moment but it has got in an hour early some days this past week. All times hereafter will be on local time. Talk to Y'all when we get there at 1.30pm Pacific time or minus 8 hours. If the time stamps seem a little strange for this post it's because I can only use one-time zone within a blog
