Made it to San Francisco ... finally

We made it to San Francisco (finally) last night - long day, left the house at 9:30 am via Dad Taxi to the airport, flight to Vancouver at 11:30 am, good thing we took the later flight to San Francisco as it took us 1.5 hours to deplane, find and go through US Custom/Immigration pre-clearance (we're lucky that way in major Canadian cities in that there are enough of us coming to the US that they send agents to the major airports to do "pre-clearance"), then another extensive security check, before arriving at our gate. We would have missed our plane had we been on the earlier flight - good call that 1 hour was not enough time in this age of heightened security.

But, the prior flight at our gate was delayed, didn't arrive until after we were supposed to be boarding, then even after they left our plane still didn't pull up to the gate for a while. Then once we were able to board, the pilot announced we'd be waiting another 15 minutes for some parts and some mechanics to arrive as they were needed in San Francisco for another plane. (Don't you just love Air Canada? I mean, are the mechanics already presumably in San Francisco so inferior that they have to fly their own special mechanics from Vancouver to SF???)

So we left an hour late (really, not too bad) - the good thing was that our strategy of selecting aisle and window seats paid off, there was no one in the middle seat so we had the half-row to ourselves. (if someone does show up for the middle seat, we offer them the aisle instead and have never had anyone refuse).

Arriving in SF, they have an "AirTrain" to take you from the different terminals to the parking or the BART station (Bay Area Rapid Transit), then 30 minutes on BART to Union Square, then a 10-15 minute walk to our hotel. Whew! Pretty tired - just wanted to call my brother, get something to eat, check the internet, and go to sleep.

My new-ish computer seemed to have some conflict between the Toshiba wireless stuff and the Windows wireless stuff so I couldn't connect with the hotel's free WiFi access in the rooms - Ed got very frustrated trying to figure it out, and in fact we only managed to connect this morning. My main reason in wanting to connect was to try to find an updated start list with rider start times for the TofC prologue today, but such does not seem to exist yet that I can find.

Anyway, breakfast then off to scout out around the prologue start area. Might try to connect with a few people from an internet cycling forum I participate in, we'll see.