We’re Here
Our travel to India was completed this morning about 3am Chennai time as we checked into our hotel room and finally were able to sleep in a fully horizontal position. 30 hours of travel is never fun, but we made it through mostly unscathed.
As we left the house this(yesterday?) morning it was snowing like a bastard and the driving was miserable. Within about 20 minutes of checking in, the plane was delayed, and our hopes were readily sinking… Elavating our nervousness to near panic attack, when we called British Air to see what our options were if we never made it to JFK, we found out that because we didn’t book our Burlington – JFK tickets through BA that NO changes to our ticket would be allowed, and if we failed to make our connection at JFK it was entirely at the discretion of the gate crew if we could even buy another ticket… Well after making the worst case planning (we’d do our best to get to NYC, and if we had to buy all new tickets Geetha would go to India, and I would go Home), we just settled in and tried to maintain a “no sense worrying over things you can’t change” attitude. It ALMOST worked…
Fortunately, and rather rapidly the snow fall just stopped in Burlington, and planes started landing and taking off… We made it to JFK only about 2 hours behind schedule, and from that point on our trip was pretty much as un-eventful as a 30 hour odessey could be…
As I type this Geetha is not feeling well and is in bed sleeping. We’re due to get downstairs for some breakfast and to get our day started. Hopefully some caffeine will curb her migraine.
Bye for now.