Day 21 - Mar 25, 2013 Last updated: 4/7/13 8:00pm PT
The final day. Going home from these long trips is hard. Part of you wants to keep going (I think avoiding the return to work has something to do with it). But part of you misses the stability and consistency of home.
At Heathrow airport, you have to scan your boarding pass in a machine before you can get to the security screeners. Our tickets both beeped and wouldn’t let us in. So we went to the British Airways counter and found out we’d been upgraded. Now, we had pretty good seats on the flight out, so upgraded meant we’d be sitting in Club World – the seats that fold down into beds. That would have been more beneficial on the flight to London, as that’s when you try to sleep, but I’m not going to complain one bit. Club World seats get you into the executive lounge, which meant free food and drinks. Unfortunately, we ate lunch before we found out about the upgrade. Still, we went into the lounge and had a couple bags of chips and soft drinks. These seats were so roomy that the flight home seemed too short. (yes, it was still 9.5 hours).
Here we are, me with my legs completely straight and not touching the seat in front of me, and I was slouching. And that’s a real glass, not plastic.
