Travel Day
Jan. 20th, 2009 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aAs much as I love vacationing in Hawaii, I hate the Travel Day, which today was. It was especially obnoxious because we got delayed for approximately 3 hours at SFO before our plane finally took off, most of that sitting aboard the plane. Trip to Hawaii + 3 hours on the ground = No Good.
There were multiple mechanical problems with the plane, first some sensor that had broken, then some valve in the engine that was also out (or, at least, stuck on). It didn't leave me very comfortable, having a plane that had multiple problems simultaneously spring up, but the flight was fine.
It was actually our second weird travel experience of the day. We took BART out to SFO, as usual, and even though we were on a train specifically scheduled to go to SFO, for some reason the train driver took us out to Millbrae first. I have never in my life seen a BART train go to the wrong place, but that surely happened today. Weird.
In any case, we got in to Lihue a few minutes before 9pm (HT). Since we left the house at 9am (PT), that means about 14 hours in transit, which was at least a couple of hours longer than it should be. But, we're here safe and sound now.
We went out and looked at the stars a bit with the folks tonight. Very pretty. Saw many, many more stars than our visible back at home, even the Milky Way wending its way across the sky.
Tomorrow, we should get down to the beach (and get the rest of the way settled).
Our poor cats are probably slowly coming the realization that we're not coming home. Cobweb and Munchkin will do fine, as we've left them alone before, but I worry about poor Lucy, who's never been away from her people.
Well, we had to leave her alone sometime. Fortunately we have folks coming by throughout the week who should make sure that the cats stay out of trouble and also remind them that there are humans in the world.
There were multiple mechanical problems with the plane, first some sensor that had broken, then some valve in the engine that was also out (or, at least, stuck on). It didn't leave me very comfortable, having a plane that had multiple problems simultaneously spring up, but the flight was fine.
It was actually our second weird travel experience of the day. We took BART out to SFO, as usual, and even though we were on a train specifically scheduled to go to SFO, for some reason the train driver took us out to Millbrae first. I have never in my life seen a BART train go to the wrong place, but that surely happened today. Weird.
In any case, we got in to Lihue a few minutes before 9pm (HT). Since we left the house at 9am (PT), that means about 14 hours in transit, which was at least a couple of hours longer than it should be. But, we're here safe and sound now.
We went out and looked at the stars a bit with the folks tonight. Very pretty. Saw many, many more stars than our visible back at home, even the Milky Way wending its way across the sky.
Tomorrow, we should get down to the beach (and get the rest of the way settled).
Our poor cats are probably slowly coming the realization that we're not coming home. Cobweb and Munchkin will do fine, as we've left them alone before, but I worry about poor Lucy, who's never been away from her people.
Well, we had to leave her alone sometime. Fortunately we have folks coming by throughout the week who should make sure that the cats stay out of trouble and also remind them that there are humans in the world.