Up, up and away we went, into the blue yonder.
There was a significant cloud base over Manchester when we took off, however, we soon came out above the cloud and wow......it was amazing.
Now, i have broken out of cloud before in an aircraft, but this was different. The clouds were just like big balls of cotton wool and as we progressed we went whizzing through them, just like the teddy bear on the advert for loo rolls !!!!
It made me realize how fantastic it must have been for my father, who learnt to fly on Tiger Moths just before WW2. The exhilaration must have been immense in the open cockpit, i could imagine him with a big grin on his face, what a star he was.
So, i settled down for the next 8 hours or so in the sky.
I checked out the films on offer and set about viewing as many as possible.
Delivery Man - enjoyed that one, funny and sad at times.
Hobbit, desolation of Smaug.........excellent, really enjoyed that.
Bits of others, which were to be honest......garbage, so i never saw more than 5 to 10 minutes of each.
Good landing at Philadelphia and then the nightmare, US customs and immigration, phew....slow.
They were not too keen on me staying for 2 months and insisted i had to be out by the 29th June. That's fine i thought, i'll be in Canada by then.
The next obstacle, my flight to Portland is cancelled !!!!! Gggggreat !!!!
Off i toddled to the information desk at US Airways and i have to say, they were brilliant.
In no time at all, i had a new flight booked to New York, then onto Portland, this was to make me 5 hours late arriving in Portland. This was not a mayor issue as we had a room booked for the night in the airport hotel.
I arrived in Portland around 23:00 hrs.
Off i trundled to the hotel, Terje had arrived about 2 hours earlier and was settled in, with a brew ready for me....good lad !!!
Steve, arrived an hour or so later and we were soon all fast asleep for the night.
08:00 hours and we are up and ready for breakfast, excellent spread set out by the Embassy Suites Hotel............mmmmmmmmmmmm. I think i had the best omelette i have ever had at that breakfast.The guy cooked it in front of me, ham and bacon pieces with spinach, cooked first in oil with an ice cube !!! Then covered with a plate, the ice cube slows the cooking down so they all cook at the same rate. The plate causes a type of vacuum and the spinach is steamed from the water......egg mix in last.........gorgeous !!!
Steve picked up the hire car and off we go to Camden to look at the boat, then onto Bill's house.
Bill and his wife Joanna had very kindly opened up their house to us for the month, while they are away !!!
The view is from Bill's front porch, it looks over Penobscot Bay ..........stunning !!
There was a significant cloud base over Manchester when we took off, however, we soon came out above the cloud and wow......it was amazing.
Now, i have broken out of cloud before in an aircraft, but this was different. The clouds were just like big balls of cotton wool and as we progressed we went whizzing through them, just like the teddy bear on the advert for loo rolls !!!!
It made me realize how fantastic it must have been for my father, who learnt to fly on Tiger Moths just before WW2. The exhilaration must have been immense in the open cockpit, i could imagine him with a big grin on his face, what a star he was.
So, i settled down for the next 8 hours or so in the sky.
I checked out the films on offer and set about viewing as many as possible.
Delivery Man - enjoyed that one, funny and sad at times.
Hobbit, desolation of Smaug.........excellent, really enjoyed that.
Bits of others, which were to be honest......garbage, so i never saw more than 5 to 10 minutes of each.
Good landing at Philadelphia and then the nightmare, US customs and immigration, phew....slow.
They were not too keen on me staying for 2 months and insisted i had to be out by the 29th June. That's fine i thought, i'll be in Canada by then.
The next obstacle, my flight to Portland is cancelled !!!!! Gggggreat !!!!
Off i toddled to the information desk at US Airways and i have to say, they were brilliant.
In no time at all, i had a new flight booked to New York, then onto Portland, this was to make me 5 hours late arriving in Portland. This was not a mayor issue as we had a room booked for the night in the airport hotel.
I arrived in Portland around 23:00 hrs.
Off i trundled to the hotel, Terje had arrived about 2 hours earlier and was settled in, with a brew ready for me....good lad !!!
Steve, arrived an hour or so later and we were soon all fast asleep for the night.
08:00 hours and we are up and ready for breakfast, excellent spread set out by the Embassy Suites Hotel............mmmmmmmmmmmm. I think i had the best omelette i have ever had at that breakfast.The guy cooked it in front of me, ham and bacon pieces with spinach, cooked first in oil with an ice cube !!! Then covered with a plate, the ice cube slows the cooking down so they all cook at the same rate. The plate causes a type of vacuum and the spinach is steamed from the water......egg mix in last.........gorgeous !!!
Steve picked up the hire car and off we go to Camden to look at the boat, then onto Bill's house.
Bill and his wife Joanna had very kindly opened up their house to us for the month, while they are away !!!
The view is from Bill's front porch, it looks over Penobscot Bay ..........stunning !!
No comments:
Post a Comment