Arrived in London

The first leg of our trip was our inaugural trip on the San Francisco BART rapid transit system. We left from the Dublin station about 3 minutes from Stephen and Anh's house, and the train went directly to SFO in about 1 hour 25 minutes. It was easy and we enjoyed watching all the stopped traffic on the freeways along the way. BART goes directly to the international terminal at SFO, so it was a one minute walk to the United ticket counter... which was empty.

A cute story on the airplane. After the plane took off, the flight attendant brought drinks around (business class is nice) and we asked for champagne. She gave us our glasses and Marcia mentioned it was our anniversary (39 years). About 30 seconds later, she came back and took our glasses and said you can't drink that because she was going to get the good champagne from first class. 30 seconds later she brings us new tall champagne glasses and pours the good stuff. She kept refilling our glasses until we polished off the entire bottle. Good start. After our meals (not great), our iPods and half of a sleeping pill made the rest of the 10 hour flight go by fast until breakfast before we landed.


We arrived in London to the waiting arms of old friends from Joe's working days. The Robertsons live in Ascot, Berkshire near the famous horse racetrack. We'll be here until Saturday.

Our 2 month journey has begun! I hope to add some photos soon.