Aug 17,2008 Sunday... Day 17 at US....
This is the first sunday I need to wake up so early to catch a flight... I was waken up by 4am alarm. We got ready and started to airport by 4:25AM. From venky's home it is a 25min drive. Reached the airport exactly at 4:55AM.
Went directly to check-in place. Since I didn't have any baggage to check-in, got the boarding pass through Easy Check-in Kiosk of United Airlines. They told, they will be allocating my seat near the Gate. Now have to go through the security check. Seems I've to rush to the place now. The security check queue was pretty long. Waited for another 15min to clear that. Meanwhile Venky came till security check and he left.. Kudos and Many thanks to Venky who spent with me during whole trip in Pittsburgh taking me to Niagara Falls, Temple, Sand Castle and Laser Storm..
Next I've to catch a train to go to the boarding gates... Finally reached the gate exactly on time.
I was so much tired due to continuous travel for past 3 days.. So got in the Chicago flight and luckily I got the exit seat. I slept all the way to chicago and 1:30 hrs journey... The flight landed at Chicago at 6:15Am (it is in another time zone, central time zone)... My next flight to chicago is at 7am and luckily this time the gate was just opposite to the gate from where I came out. The chicago - SFO flight was a big flight and it has 2 - 4 - 2 seats.. Luckily they have upgraded my tickets to Economy plus and the seats are bit wider... Here also I hardly did any thing.. I slept, slept, slept till it reached SFO. I was waken up the announcement that it reaches in another 15minutes and this time the flight was ahead of the schedule.
The distant view of SFO was in the horizon.. When the flight started descending down from 30K feet, passing through the clouds was pretty much amazing.. The whole SFO was covered with clouds and above it was sunny. Once crossed the clouds, it was pretty cloudy... Just in minutes the whole environment changed...
Not having much words to explain the experiences... I got down and searched for a vending machine which gives change for $bills. Finally after half an hour hunt I found one near the baggage claim area. This time I made a stupid mistake of inserting the bill in the upper slot and it didn't work a quite a time.. I found one more machine and found the same.. Finally I found how stupid I was. Then I got the quarters.. Called up Venky and informed him about my safe trip to SFO..
Tried reaching Lohit and he was not reachable. Next I took KX sam trans bus to san carlos and it is a local service costing $1.50 . From San carlos to my hotel I walked down. It was a 20min walk.. Reached finally hotel at 11AM..
In the afternoon, at hotel ordered pizza at Amici's... I had the pizza at Venkat's Room and slept there in the Sofa for around 5 hrs.. I woke up at 8 only.. I was damn tired due to the hectic schedule..
I was not much hungry and in the evening went to Burger king to have dinner. I had a chocolate Shake and French fries... In the night I called home, some of my friends.. It was one more day at SFO....
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