Our schedule looked efficient to us:
United 0840 lve MEL 11:20 AM arr SYD 12:45 PM 1 hr 25 min - 439 miles
United 0870 lve SYD 02:45 PM arr SFO 10:59 AM 13h 14m - 7412 miles
United 6316 lve SFO 02:07 PM arr SEA 04:09 PM 2h 2m - 678 miles
Our flight from SYD landed a half hour early and neither Immigration nor security at the domestic terminal held us up too long. So why are we still sitting here?
SFO is having one of those air-traffic-control-due-to-weather days and the departure screen is chock full of delays. Our 2:07 p.m. departure has been pushed back twice, and is now at 3:40 p.m.
Now that makes for a long day, even if we have luckily managed to find a spot in the "quiet room" at the RCC.
It didn't even seem to be that big a coincidence to run across an Australian couple, the male half of which was wearing a Hawthorn Footy jacket. We talked for a moment and I wished them well in their attempt to get to Boston today.
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.