So here we are in the San Francisco Red Carpet Club, just about to leave for our Seattle flight. Despite sitting on the ground at Bangkok this morning for nearly three hours while mechanics attended to something, we had a good flight to Tokyo Narita.
We'd missed our connection, along with folks heading for LAX and Washington-Dulles (IAD) but the United employees efficiently had new boarding passes ready for us and we even stayed in Business Class (Hurray!) on a flight to SFO leaving a couple of hours later.
We've slept well, look forward to having dinner with some really cute grandkids in Seattle, packing our warmer clothes for Munich, and then heading to an airport hotel before that early flight Thursday morning.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.