Back Home from Canada - Two Days Early
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canyonwalkerCanada travelog #31
Back home · Fri, 29 Aug 2025. 11:20pm.
We are back home from Canada. Our flight, a nonstop from YYZ (Toronto), landed at SFO around 9:40pm. We had bags in hand just after 10, were rolling in a car by 10:15, and walked through our own front door at 10:45. Now it's 11:20pm, I've unpacked, I've taken a shower to clean the travel stink off me (it always smells like old-lady perfume), and I'm winding down before going to bed.
Travel home this evening was mostly unremarkable. Hawk and I enjoyed putting our heels up for several hours at the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge courtesy of our United Airlines elite status. That was worth a pretty decent free meal along with a comfortable place to sit while we killed about 4 hours at the airport before heading over to our gate to board. Oh, and I killed several drinks, too. Flying 5.5 hours in coach was easier when well lubricated.
...Except I didn't fly in coach. At the last minute, as I was queued up for boarding at the gate, I looked at my electronic boarding pass and saw that my seat assignment was changed to 1E. Cue Bob Uecker: I must be in the front row! 🤣 First class wasn't much of an upgrade from the exit-row aisle seat I already had in coach as it was a domestic aircraft. (Domestic First is nothing like International First.) It was basically just a wider seat and free booze. But: wider seat a free booze! 🥳
The only thing that was a disappointment about today was that we cut our trip short by 2 days. But that's not really a "today" disappointment; it's a decision we made on Tuesday after the dry balls let-down. We called an audible and rebooked our flights to return home 2 days early.
Calling an audible isn't just about cutting trips short, though. It's about swapping out something that's not working as well as planned for something else, a Plan B, that'll work better. So, what's Plan B here? We're not sure. We've still got a three day weekend since Monday is Labor Day. We may pack our bags back up and head out of town tomorrow! Or maybe we'll stay around town, hang with friends, and spend warm, sunny afternoons at the pool. It's like there are no wrong answers here.
Back home · Fri, 29 Aug 2025. 11:20pm.
We are back home from Canada. Our flight, a nonstop from YYZ (Toronto), landed at SFO around 9:40pm. We had bags in hand just after 10, were rolling in a car by 10:15, and walked through our own front door at 10:45. Now it's 11:20pm, I've unpacked, I've taken a shower to clean the travel stink off me (it always smells like old-lady perfume), and I'm winding down before going to bed.
Travel home this evening was mostly unremarkable. Hawk and I enjoyed putting our heels up for several hours at the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge courtesy of our United Airlines elite status. That was worth a pretty decent free meal along with a comfortable place to sit while we killed about 4 hours at the airport before heading over to our gate to board. Oh, and I killed several drinks, too. Flying 5.5 hours in coach was easier when well lubricated.
...Except I didn't fly in coach. At the last minute, as I was queued up for boarding at the gate, I looked at my electronic boarding pass and saw that my seat assignment was changed to 1E. Cue Bob Uecker: I must be in the front row! 🤣 First class wasn't much of an upgrade from the exit-row aisle seat I already had in coach as it was a domestic aircraft. (Domestic First is nothing like International First.) It was basically just a wider seat and free booze. But: wider seat a free booze! 🥳
The only thing that was a disappointment about today was that we cut our trip short by 2 days. But that's not really a "today" disappointment; it's a decision we made on Tuesday after the dry balls let-down. We called an audible and rebooked our flights to return home 2 days early.
Calling an audible isn't just about cutting trips short, though. It's about swapping out something that's not working as well as planned for something else, a Plan B, that'll work better. So, what's Plan B here? We're not sure. We've still got a three day weekend since Monday is Labor Day. We may pack our bags back up and head out of town tomorrow! Or maybe we'll stay around town, hang with friends, and spend warm, sunny afternoons at the pool. It's like there are no wrong answers here.
