Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Another Long Day

I had trouble sleeping in the hotel last night. By the time I realized it was the A/C - heater unit clicking on and off that was waking me up every few minutes it was almost time to get up. My cab was there at 5:20 and I was at the airport in plenty of time to learn to use the self check-in computer which prints your own boarding pass and luggage tag.

Our assigned aircraft never showed up so they had to substitute one with a different seat configuration so that meant dozens of people (including me) had to be re-issued boarding passes. We were an hour late leaving Toronto but this didn't matter because I have to wait in Vancouver for my Victoria flight anyway. Mind you, I could have used the extra hour sleep last night!

Anyway, I am stretched out on a seat in the Vancouver Airport and it is not worth trying to sleep because my flight boards in less than an hour. Did I mention, I hate air travel!

6 comments:

  1. I am with you on flying. I traveled extensively in my work world and flying is the one thing I do no miss.

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  2. Sorry Croft my only comment is that any flight I take now I take in regular hours so no early morning starts and with going to the UK with time difference takes me days to recover..so far I have not had to outlay extra dollars and I arrive relatively fresh...glad you are home cheers les

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  3. We love air travel. Even if it's at oddball hours. I'm sitting here thinking about why we love it so much, and I can't quite figure it out. Because there can certainly be frustrating moments. I guess it's something to do with the excitement of going somewhere different. And neither one of us seem to have problems adjusting to time differences, so don't feel any "jet-lag".

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  4. Croft, you just need to have more relatives across the country so you can take shorter flights. Stopping off for a day in Edmonton or Winterpeg would be easier on you. You also need to get off the Island. Those connecting times are murder on the system.

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  5. I certainly hope you're home by now.

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    1. It was a marathon but I made it home early last night.. Of course I could not go to sleep right away so all in all I was up for 22 hours! Almost a record!

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