Summer, fall, and the first few weeks of winter in Minnesota are wonderful. Also wonderful are the percussive sounds of a glycol/water mixture being sprayed at our plane in the depths of winter as we start a journey towards the tropics or a Southern Hemisphere summer. The meteorological definition of winter spans three months: December,… Continue reading Getting a Head Start on Spring
Category: In-Transit
Contrail Over PSP
Contrail over Palm Springs PSP. Time to go home.
Sunrise at MSP
The sun rose over MSP while we waited to board our flight to Salt Lake City, en route to Palm Springs, California.
Change of Plan
Airside at MSP. Learned our connecting flight was delayed, and wouldn’t arrive at our destination until almost midnight Pacific. Changed the flights at no cost via the Delta app to tomorrow morning, then rode the LRT back home.
Happy Baby, ORD—HND
View from our seats: in-flight entertainment, 12-hour ANA flight, Chicago to Tokyo. It was a happy baby: happy babies make me smile. I’d bought cheap Economy tickets early to snag exit row seats at no extra cost. The baby spent most of the journey in a bassinet.
Marbella Bus Station
5:30 a.m., Marbella Bus Station. Today we’ll fly to Paris CDG then nonstop to Minneapolis/St. Paul, MSP.
Marbella
Walk + bus + bus + walk from Antequera to an Airbnb in Marbella, Costa del Sol.
Bullet Train to Cordoba
Took a bullet train to Cordoba.
TWA Flight Center: Building Excitement
We’re up, up, and away on a Delta flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Malaga AGP, Spain. In less than eight hours we’ll be on a Mediterranean beach. My 11-year-old nephew and my partner sit beside me. The other nephew (aged 10), and his parents sit across the aisle We’re oblivious to the Atlantic… Continue reading TWA Flight Center: Building Excitement
London Waterloo
Took a train from London Waterloo to Fleet to see friends. More than a quarter million people pass through these ticket barriers every day in the busiest train station in the UK.