It has a wireless connection... yesssssss
Every night around 10 o’clock I get a little sleepy. So when I landed in San Francisco tonight at 9:45, I was both pumped and… a little sleepy. I’m in California til Saturday - not for any good reason, but just to get away for a couple days. Actually, I’m headed for Palm Springs, so my stop in San Francisco was only a layover. I’ve traveled a lot, and mostly on my own, but I still fall prey to the same mistakes that used to make us roll our eyes behind the passengers’ backs when I worked on cruise ships. Like when we were landing in San Francisco, I had my iPod on full blast and completely missed the directions they gave for people continuing on to LA. When I got out into the terminal there were no United staff, and it was only then that I realized that I didn’t have that long to catch my connection, and I had no idea where to go. And it wasn’t a simple matter of finding the gate - which, by the way, wasn’t printed on the boarding pass.
After talking to three different people I figured it out – I had to go to a gate, catch a shuttle to another terminal, find another gate, and then board the plane. Happily, I didn’t make any more mistakes, and neither did United… so I got there on time. Now I’m on United flight 633 to LA, and eventually I’ll be going to Palm Springs. I had planned on renting a car and driving out to Palm Springs tonight. The problem with that is this need for sleep thing I’ve got. So although the idea of driving out to the desert in the middle of the night sounds fun, I’m probably going to find a cheap place to crash for the night after I get the car.
How cheap? Not too cheap. It might even have a wireless internet connection. And if it does, you’ll see the posting time on this entry as sometime between midnight and two. If it doesn’t, the posting time will be sometime tomorrow afternoon. And if it doesn’t, I’m going to start going into withdrawals, so I hope it does.
Either way, I’m going to try and get a lot of pictures over the next few days, and of course I’ll keep you up to date on what I’m doing. Yeah right. That’s what I think I’m going to do, but these things have a way of not happening. The most likely thing is that you’ll see a big post with stories and pictures after I get back to Vancouver. But hey, maybe I’ll surprise myself…
After talking to three different people I figured it out – I had to go to a gate, catch a shuttle to another terminal, find another gate, and then board the plane. Happily, I didn’t make any more mistakes, and neither did United… so I got there on time. Now I’m on United flight 633 to LA, and eventually I’ll be going to Palm Springs. I had planned on renting a car and driving out to Palm Springs tonight. The problem with that is this need for sleep thing I’ve got. So although the idea of driving out to the desert in the middle of the night sounds fun, I’m probably going to find a cheap place to crash for the night after I get the car.
How cheap? Not too cheap. It might even have a wireless internet connection. And if it does, you’ll see the posting time on this entry as sometime between midnight and two. If it doesn’t, the posting time will be sometime tomorrow afternoon. And if it doesn’t, I’m going to start going into withdrawals, so I hope it does.
Either way, I’m going to try and get a lot of pictures over the next few days, and of course I’ll keep you up to date on what I’m doing. Yeah right. That’s what I think I’m going to do, but these things have a way of not happening. The most likely thing is that you’ll see a big post with stories and pictures after I get back to Vancouver. But hey, maybe I’ll surprise myself…
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