Starting Thanksgiving with a Red-eye
Nov. 17th, 2023 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThanksgiving Travelog #1
SFO Airport - Fri, 17 Nov 2023. 10:15pm.
We're headed out tonight for our Thanksgiving vacation. Yes, Thanksgiving is still 6 days away. And yes, it's late at night for starting a trip. We're taking a red-eye flight tonight.
We'll spend the next few days in the Washington, DC suburbs. A bunch of my relatives live there; we'll be visiting them. A few of Hawk's friends from college live there, too; we'll see them also. And we'll spend at least one day visiting museums in DC.
Wednesday night we'll drive north to central Pennsylvania, where Hawk's parents live. We'll stay with them for a few days, enjoying Thanksgiving dinner(s) with them and family friends. Yes, I pluralized dinners because they have two. Thursday evening is the big, main Thanksgiving dinner, at the friends' house. Friday evening is Second Thanksgiving, smaller and slightly less formal, hosted by my inlaws.
That's all in the more distant future, though. In the immediate future is this red-eye flight. Flying overnight isn't my favorite thing, as I'll be lucky if I get even 4 hours of sleep and I have a full day of visiting relatives and friends planned for tomorrow. But spending all of tomorrow flying instead of visiting, which is the alternative to spending all of tonight flying, is not my favorite, either. All I get to choose is the lesser evil. Red-eye flying, it is!
SFO Airport - Fri, 17 Nov 2023. 10:15pm.
We're headed out tonight for our Thanksgiving vacation. Yes, Thanksgiving is still 6 days away. And yes, it's late at night for starting a trip. We're taking a red-eye flight tonight.
We'll spend the next few days in the Washington, DC suburbs. A bunch of my relatives live there; we'll be visiting them. A few of Hawk's friends from college live there, too; we'll see them also. And we'll spend at least one day visiting museums in DC.
Wednesday night we'll drive north to central Pennsylvania, where Hawk's parents live. We'll stay with them for a few days, enjoying Thanksgiving dinner(s) with them and family friends. Yes, I pluralized dinners because they have two. Thursday evening is the big, main Thanksgiving dinner, at the friends' house. Friday evening is Second Thanksgiving, smaller and slightly less formal, hosted by my inlaws.
That's all in the more distant future, though. In the immediate future is this red-eye flight. Flying overnight isn't my favorite thing, as I'll be lucky if I get even 4 hours of sleep and I have a full day of visiting relatives and friends planned for tomorrow. But spending all of tomorrow flying instead of visiting, which is the alternative to spending all of tonight flying, is not my favorite, either. All I get to choose is the lesser evil. Red-eye flying, it is!
