Another day of air travel. This one was less grueling than Day 34 – only(?) 8 hours. But we were already dog tired so it seemed longer.
We arrived in San Francisco around 11am and our flight – to New York – did not leave until 9:30pm. That gave us nearly a full day in San Francisco, a city Marlene had never been to and a city that I had not visited in over 10 years. I wanted to hop on a cable car. But we had to overcome weariness and find a place to store our carry-on luggage for a few hours.
The weariness was a problem, but one that we probably could have overcome. The luggage was the big problem. The facility for short-term storage was outrageously expensive – $20 for each bag. It would have cost us $80 to visit the city, not counting subway and cable car fares. Dottie and Maureen did not want to go and perhaps we could have enlisted them to watch the bags. But they had already gone through security when we learned that they were our only option. Going through security one extra time was onerous. And by the time we considered that option our window had shrunk to about 6 hours. We decided to just hang out in the terminal and play some cards.
The layover in New York (JFK) was blessedly brief – just an hour. The flight to Fort Myers was on time and smooth. We arrived at 10:30am and were driven home by Maureen’s daughter and granddaughter.
And then we slept. We needed it after 28 hours in the air over 2 days.