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 […]
Today’s the last day of our cruise but certainly not the least as we’re docked in La Spezia from which folks could opt to visit Florence, Pisa, or the Cinque Terre (our destination) amongst other places. We left the ship around 8:30, took a shuttle bus out of the port, and then a taxi (€15 […]