Flying Home from Colorado
Jul. 22nd, 2022 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerColorado Travelog #44
38,000' over Nevada - Sunday, 10 Jul 2022, 9:30am
Our trip to Colorado is just about over. That's definitely true now because we're on the flight back to California! The flight lands at SJC in about 45 minutes, and we should be home-home— as in, in our own house— in about 90 minutes.
It's been a busy day already even though it's only 9:30 (Mountain time) right now. Our alarms rang at 4:45am, and we were up and about by 5am to get dressed. The sun hadn't yet risen but the sky was already getting bright. That helped with getting going at such an early hour. I ate breakfast in the room before we met in the lobby by 5:20 to await the 5:30am shuttle to the airport.
Our flight departed from DEN's Concourse C, which has been expanded somewhat recently. Signs overhead in the terminal indicate that there will eventually be gates C1..C99. For now it only goes to about 75. The new parts of the concourse are bright and airy... but have almost no food sales. That didn't matter for me as I'd eaten enough in the room from the food I bought last night at 7-Eleven, but Hawk was hungry and couldn't find many choices.
Once aboard the aircraft I found my usual seat in the exit row, with extra legroom. Yay, elite status. And now I'm enjoying a complimentary drink.
...Yes, it's beer. At 9:30am. I know I've said before I don't drink before lunch, but given that I've been up almost 5 hours now it seems like it's almost time for lunch.
38,000' over Nevada - Sunday, 10 Jul 2022, 9:30am
Our trip to Colorado is just about over. That's definitely true now because we're on the flight back to California! The flight lands at SJC in about 45 minutes, and we should be home-home— as in, in our own house— in about 90 minutes.
It's been a busy day already even though it's only 9:30 (Mountain time) right now. Our alarms rang at 4:45am, and we were up and about by 5am to get dressed. The sun hadn't yet risen but the sky was already getting bright. That helped with getting going at such an early hour. I ate breakfast in the room before we met in the lobby by 5:20 to await the 5:30am shuttle to the airport.
Our flight departed from DEN's Concourse C, which has been expanded somewhat recently. Signs overhead in the terminal indicate that there will eventually be gates C1..C99. For now it only goes to about 75. The new parts of the concourse are bright and airy... but have almost no food sales. That didn't matter for me as I'd eaten enough in the room from the food I bought last night at 7-Eleven, but Hawk was hungry and couldn't find many choices.
Once aboard the aircraft I found my usual seat in the exit row, with extra legroom. Yay, elite status. And now I'm enjoying a complimentary drink.
...Yes, it's beer. At 9:30am. I know I've said before I don't drink before lunch, but given that I've been up almost 5 hours now it seems like it's almost time for lunch.
