Day 1, May 18

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 Day 1, May 18, well now May 19th.

Our Relive travel trip:

https://www.relive.cc/view/vMq5eVrEP8q


It has been a long day, but we made it to San Diego in one piece.  Up early coffee and some fried rice has me at the airport via Uber Janet.  Big hugs, and off to check-in.  Bags all fit, and I have tsa precheck.  I find Howard already inside and ready to go.  Flight to HNL is great, and with an hour and half for our next flight, we stock up, Howard gets a chicken plate, and I get a  cold beer.  Nice way to start a vacation at 1030am.  We board and pull back from the gate, someone is ill, so back to the gate, and shuffle thru luggage in the hold to find their items.  Back we go, off to the runway airport and we have a tire issue, so back to the gate again.  It is now a little after noon.  Well short story long, they fix the tire, we leave, we go back to the gate again (trip #3) someone is ill again.  at this point we need to wait for the breaks to cool, so they let the plane off to have a bio break or stretch while they remove someone and find the luggage.  It is now 3m.  

But on the bright side, Howard has gotten a call our bikes are ready for pickup in the morning and we can get there at 8am.  There is hope.

So by the end of the day, we spent more time tooling around the airport than in the air.  We got some sleep on the plane, ate spam Musubi's and I listened to audio books and music.  The main thing is we made it to SD and it was crazy.  Topping things off, we almost didn't get a hotel room as they were overbooked.  Ended up with a suite with one bed, but alas there is a pullout.  

It is now 2:11 am, May 19, up at 6am to get to the bikes and get out of dodge (SD) to the foothills and start our trip.  






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