The Joy of Travel

Travel is such a joy!

The Gorse Fox was travelling for about 21 hours yesterday,

• 0.75 was spent getting to Gatwick
• 4.5 of which were spent at Gatwick undergoing the usual waits and delays imposed by security and late aircraft.
• 9.5 hours were spent flying to Atlanta
• 1 hour was spent waiting by a carousel for baggage that they had delivered to another carousel and failed to tell anyone.
• 1 hour was spent waiting for them to shuffle people to get us on to the connection flight to Orlando
• 1.5 hours was spent flying to Orlando in a 767 doing impressions of a tumble-dryer as it bucked and plunged through heavy thunder cloud
• 1.5 hours was spent waiting for baggage at Orlando because the thunderstorm had closed the loading ramps for fear of lightning (which was pretty spectacular).
• 0.5 was spent checking in to and waiting for the coach transfer
• 0.5 hours was spent getting to the hotel

Gorse Fox was not feeling fresh as a daisy. He checked-in, went to his room and dumped his stuff and went straight back down to find something to eat... reviewing the queues to get in to all the restaurants in the hotel he went back to order room service. They vowed to get the food to his room in 45 minutes... he said "forget it", turned off the light and went to bed.