Traveling

CWA before 5 am.  Chicago before 8 am.  

Flight to London delayed until 7:10 pm.  11 hours walking all the concourses at O’Hare.  

Chicago Hotdog 

Dinosaur with a face mask.  

Flight changed again.  Another hour delay, after the first one which bumped it back 2 hours.  The Joys of trying to get some place.  

Flew over the top of the globe while trying to nap in an upright position.  London Heathrow Immigration and Customs was almost an hour of queuing.  

Where 360 people crossed from one large continent to a semi large island.  

ROLEX for almost $21,000 U.S. dollars  

Flight delay between London and Edinburgh, but that was not new.  

A mother and daughter across the aisle from Chicago were going on to Nairobi.  The next flight a mother was taking her 20 something son to Scotland for a week and then Ireland.  

Bus from airport to City Center Waverly station, then train to Dunbar.  Almost missed the train, in typical Lois fashion, I was there waiting for almost an hour, but at slightly the wrong gate.  I kept looking at the train parked on the correct set of rails, and when there was only 4 minutes left before departure I wandered over.  Asked the driver/engineer if this train stopped at Dunbar.  He said “yes”.  I said “I will get on”.  Too tired to have been annoyed with myself.  

Royal Mackintosh Hotel.  Rather old, lots of twisted hallways (had trouble finding the room after exploring the town a bit.  

Donner Kabob for dinner eaten on a bench.  Well a portion was eaten and the rest will be carried for tomorrow’s lunch. 

Note bench where kabob was eaten.  

Kabob - only ate a quarter of it.  Now will have to carry the weight of 3/4 kabob tomorrow.  But it sure was tasty. 

Royal Macintosh Hotel. 

View from my window with the North Sea between the orange roofs. 

Time to FaceTime with Gary and then organize my stuff for Day 1.