My trip - Travel Day
I left on June 11th at about 3:30 in the afternoon or so Arizona time. I arrived in London the next day at about 11:00 in the morning London time (or 3 in the morning Arizona time).
It was a pretty uneventful trip other than that I met a woman on the plane from Phoenix to Chicago who used to be a teacher and we chatted the entire trip, so that was a nice way to while away 3 hours or so. When I got to Chicago it was nice to find my gate was nearby unlike the last time when I had to walk forEVER to get to the next gate. Anyway, I had some food so I wouldn't pass out and waited for my plane to take off.
Got to London half an hour early, couldn't remember how to turn on the international cell phone at first, so I got a little panicky and took the battery out and put it back in and everything and then finally remembered the on switch was on the top. Whew.
Zipped through immigration and customs and went to what they call “The Meeting Place” to wait for my friend to meet me. Friend was not there, so I sat down and waited. Finally got there after I'd been waiting 15 minutes (but remember I was early so friend was actually only 10 minutes later than the arranged upon time). There had been some kind of emergency on the underground which held things up, but nonetheless, friend arrived and we were on our way to Windsor for the first night and day of my journey.
I took a nap, then a shower, and then we went to dinner in Windsor at a little restaurant across from the castle. Back to the hotel and fell asleep, but I woke up missing Mike in the middle of the night, so I called him and had him call me back (incoming calls free = outgoing calls $1.49/minute). That made me feel better and I finally had a good night's sleep.
