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canyonwalker) wrote2024-09-08 11:28 am
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Beginning the Journey Home
Blue Ridge Trip '24 #33
CLT Airport - Sun, 8 Sep 2024. 2pm
Once again I'm jumping out of order to post a blog from our Blue Ridge Mountains trip. This time the jump to real time is to note that we're headed home. Yes, that means the rest of the blog series from this trip is currently running 4 days behind. (My most recent blog was from our Wednesday visit to Grandfather Mountain.) A 4 day lag actually isn't bad compared to past week+ long trips. Though I'll lag further behind before I finish this series, as I'll be turning around just 12 hours after I get home tonight to leave on my next trip tomorrow morning.
We packed our bags this morning and checked out of our hotel in Boone, NC. It was nice staying in one place for 5 days after hotel-hopping earlier in the trip. Hotel hopping is our norm when traveling since we like to visit many places and see and do many things. It's unusual, but pleasant, when we find enough stuff to do in one area that we can plausibly just stay put, hotel-wise. North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains are like that. It worked for us last year in Brevard, and it worked this year in Boone.
We left the hotel today just before 10am. The drive down to CLT from Boone was easy. Google Maps said it'd take us 1 hour 42 minutes. With a stop for gas and a light dashboard lunch we arrived at noon.
Now we're sitting at the gate waiting for our flight. So far things are looking good for departing on-time at 3:20pm Eastern time. From here we'll connect in STL, land at OAK at 8:20pm Pacific time, and be home by 9:30pm. Of course, that'll be 12:30am Eastern time. We may have a bit of jet lag. Or maybe we'll just sleep a bit on the connecting flight.
CLT Airport - Sun, 8 Sep 2024. 2pm
Once again I'm jumping out of order to post a blog from our Blue Ridge Mountains trip. This time the jump to real time is to note that we're headed home. Yes, that means the rest of the blog series from this trip is currently running 4 days behind. (My most recent blog was from our Wednesday visit to Grandfather Mountain.) A 4 day lag actually isn't bad compared to past week+ long trips. Though I'll lag further behind before I finish this series, as I'll be turning around just 12 hours after I get home tonight to leave on my next trip tomorrow morning.
We packed our bags this morning and checked out of our hotel in Boone, NC. It was nice staying in one place for 5 days after hotel-hopping earlier in the trip. Hotel hopping is our norm when traveling since we like to visit many places and see and do many things. It's unusual, but pleasant, when we find enough stuff to do in one area that we can plausibly just stay put, hotel-wise. North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains are like that. It worked for us last year in Brevard, and it worked this year in Boone.
We left the hotel today just before 10am. The drive down to CLT from Boone was easy. Google Maps said it'd take us 1 hour 42 minutes. With a stop for gas and a light dashboard lunch we arrived at noon.
Now we're sitting at the gate waiting for our flight. So far things are looking good for departing on-time at 3:20pm Eastern time. From here we'll connect in STL, land at OAK at 8:20pm Pacific time, and be home by 9:30pm. Of course, that'll be 12:30am Eastern time. We may have a bit of jet lag. Or maybe we'll just sleep a bit on the connecting flight.