Leaving on a jet plane

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Entry Trip End May 31, 2009

  San Francisco airport, California
Sunday, May 31, 2009

And now it is Friday and the beginning of the long trip home.  A daunting travel itinerary consisting of a 4-5hr drive back to San Francisco, a trip on the BART train to the airport (meeting Tera on route), a flight from SFO to LAX on American Airlines, collecting baggage in LA because they couldn't check it for me the whole way through (damn it!) and then the 12+ hr flight across the Pacific with V Australia home to Brisbane.

I cherished my shower in the morning, knowing I would not get another one for about 40hrs (sorry to those who have to be near me before I have one back at home!).  We left on schedule from Yosemite (well done to us!) and traveled for the last time through the roads of Yosemite Valley, through those huge pines, the Dogwood plants, the lupin and so forth.

I never did find Yosemite Sam in Yosemite, and I had been disappointed to find out that I would not find Smoky Bear there either as he is in the National Forest and not the National Parks!  Silly me!  But Sally had it covered and stopped in at the National Forest so I could make Smoky's acquaintance.

We resisted the lure of MacDonald's and Burger King on the way home, and managed to take all the right turns on the way home.  Finally, approaching San Francisco, we saw that it had turned it on for my last day here - that's right, the fog was rolling over the hills and coming to welcome me back.  It is such an effective air conditioner that it dropped the temperature by 20°F immediately and over the next few minutes by a further 5°F.  I got to take an amazing classic view over San Francisco Bay in which you can see... well, nothing!

So I have said my final good-byes to Sally & Monica, negotiated the BART and met Tera and made it to the airport.  Having wished Tera a final good bye, I now have nothing to entertain me apart from tacky souvenir shops, fast food and dodgy internet connections (I am writing this in word currently hoping to add it to the blog later when and if the connection actually works).  Well, you have to love long distance travel!  I could, of course, finally read the novel I bought in Brisbane airport that I haven't had a chance to read yet...

Before long I'll be home and I must say, although I have had a great time over here, I am definitely looking forward to being home again.  I don't have any plans for my next trip yet, but I'm sure there will be one in the not too distant future... as soon as I forget the plane trip involved in getting there and home again!

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