Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Qatar, Qatar Airways on Jun 4th, 2023
Friday was basically just a travel day. We had an early wake up call in order to catch the 5:10 Heathrow Express from Paddington. The train journey, transfer to terminal 4, check-in, security, boarding, etc. all went smoothly. We were a little delayed as we deplaned at least one passenger for reasons that are entirely […]
Posted in China, Delta Airlines on Nov 23rd, 2019
Note: in the interest of time (or lack thereof), I’m writing these posts more in batch form and impressionistically vs. my usual day-by-day recap. Days 1 & 2 were really all about the journey, having left home around 7:00am on Tuesday morning and arriving at our hotel around 8:30pm on Wednesday night. Given a good […]
Posted in China, Delta Airlines on Nov 23rd, 2019
Note: as mentioned here, I’m only posting this over 3 years later w/ minimal clean up edits. Today’s just a travel day: Tampa to Atlanta, Atlanta to Shanghai. Due to the length of the flight and departure time from Atlanta, we left Tampa around 9:45 in the morning, which meant driving to the airport in […]
Posted in British Airways, England, Italy, London, Seaview, United Kingdom on Jun 5th, 2019
Today was largely a travel day for us. We departed the ship in Civitavecchia at 8:15. We found disembarking to be very easy — it’s one of the benefits of passengers rolling on and off the manifest at most of the ports-of-call. You simply don’t have the mad crush of an entire ship disgorging itself […]
Posted in Delta Airlines on May 26th, 2019
After a very busy week, we departed for the airport around 9:30am. Our flight to Detroit was uneventful despite some weather in the Detroit area, which thankfully missed both our arrival and departure. We had about a four hour layover, but we passed the time with an early dinner at P.F. Chang’s (where I’d eaten […]