Somewhere in Wisconsin...
Feb. 23rd, 2015 05:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSo the journey was actually pretty uneventful and rather dull. We arrived at Heathrow with hours to spare, I managed to get issued with the wrong boarding pass - they neglected to give me to one for the Chicago section! - but that was quickly sorted and we managed to fit in an extremely pricy air-side lunch before departure.
The flight was apparently delayed by an hour, although I failed to notice this because I closed my eyes for a few minutes after boarding and the next thing I knew we were over Greenland & someone was offering me a vegan meal with my name on it. After reading for the rest of the journey - including Patrick Rothfuss' extremely wonderful The Slow Regard of Silent Things - we were in Chicago.
After a short layover we caught a small but full 50 seater to Eau Claire, which I again managed to sleep through, and landed somewhere after ten local time. G drove the final leg of the journey in a hire car - Apple maps FTW! - and we finally arrived at our hotel somewhere after eleven, by which point we'd been on the move for 22 hours.
My room has a striking view of the forecourt, WIS 124, and McDonalds on the far side. Still it's comfortable and quiet and the wifi is staggering fast...
The flight was apparently delayed by an hour, although I failed to notice this because I closed my eyes for a few minutes after boarding and the next thing I knew we were over Greenland & someone was offering me a vegan meal with my name on it. After reading for the rest of the journey - including Patrick Rothfuss' extremely wonderful The Slow Regard of Silent Things - we were in Chicago.
After a short layover we caught a small but full 50 seater to Eau Claire, which I again managed to sleep through, and landed somewhere after ten local time. G drove the final leg of the journey in a hire car - Apple maps FTW! - and we finally arrived at our hotel somewhere after eleven, by which point we'd been on the move for 22 hours.
My room has a striking view of the forecourt, WIS 124, and McDonalds on the far side. Still it's comfortable and quiet and the wifi is staggering fast...
