Day 9 (and 10) Bonaire to Atlanta to E-ville
QOTD: The past isn't dead. Hell, it isn't even the past.
QOTD: The past isn't dead. Hell, it isn't even the past.
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| Didn't we see one of these guys already? |
THB is feeling punk again this morning, LB does the final snorkel on her own. LB had a great time including seeing fish attacking an eel! A great send-off from a great place, Paradise.
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| Vincent and Caroline |
Checkout has it's own special feel at the Coral Paradise Resort. The two co-owners, Caroline and Vincent, are talkers. The actual settling up took less than a minute and they will handle the hairdresser handoff. Our two CPR sunblocker shirts: $38 each. After that, it is talk about just about every topic out there (old TV shows, traffic, etc.).
We do a mural pics outing before getting snacks at VdT ($14), gas ($35 for a half tank) and returning the truck ($350 for the week, pre-paid, including full coverage).
Lunch at the Flamingo airport is actually very good (CPR tip): THB has veggie lasagna and LB caprese sandwich. With a tart lemonaide, $30.
Plane is on time to Atlanta, security takes at least a half hour, dinner at Qdoba Mexican Grill of a chicken bowl (THB) and large diet coke (LB), $15. LB is eating the snacks from VdT supermarket.
Use free wifi in airport, Delta is letting THB know that the flight to SFO is running late ("low ceiling"), right now we'll be arriving well after midnight. When THB was a working guy and traveling back east, this type of flight home was interrupting his beauty sleep (often going to work the next day) and making him cranky. Retirement: THB will still feel like crap as we cross the Rockies.
The airplane is late.
The ParkSFO shuttle is late (and full, after we get on at Terminal 1, the guy skips Terminal 2 and 3 on the way to the garage).
Department of Traffic: THB has been bemoaning the traffic the last few years. How bad is it? At 1:30am on Monday morning (so this is late late Sunday night traffic the Bay Bridge is backed up for near an hour after closing 3 lanes to do underdeck repairs on the top west SF-side span of the bridge (thank goodness they aren't working on the newly completed east-side span).
Department of Insults: THB lays in bed in a daze for 3 hours and get up at 5:30 (kind of 8:30 body clock time). Putters around for an hour and then the phone rings at 6:40am: robo-call about some medication. Maybe these guys know something THB doesn't? Sleep aid? Fortunately DB took the call.
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| Lasagna, another CPR reco, very good and terrific for airport food |
Use free wifi in airport, Delta is letting THB know that the flight to SFO is running late ("low ceiling"), right now we'll be arriving well after midnight. When THB was a working guy and traveling back east, this type of flight home was interrupting his beauty sleep (often going to work the next day) and making him cranky. Retirement: THB will still feel like crap as we cross the Rockies.
The airplane is late.
The ParkSFO shuttle is late (and full, after we get on at Terminal 1, the guy skips Terminal 2 and 3 on the way to the garage).
Department of Traffic: THB has been bemoaning the traffic the last few years. How bad is it? At 1:30am on Monday morning (so this is late late Sunday night traffic the Bay Bridge is backed up for near an hour after closing 3 lanes to do underdeck repairs on the top west SF-side span of the bridge (thank goodness they aren't working on the newly completed east-side span).
Department of Insults: THB lays in bed in a daze for 3 hours and get up at 5:30 (kind of 8:30 body clock time). Putters around for an hour and then the phone rings at 6:40am: robo-call about some medication. Maybe these guys know something THB doesn't? Sleep aid? Fortunately DB took the call.
Book Review: American War, Omar El Akkad (novel): Another dystopian view of the future of the world, focused on the North vs South retelling, set 50-120 years in the future where climate change and biological warfare destroy the USA as we know it now. Particularly distressing in light of "current" events in Charlottesville and DJT's view of climate change. See QOTD. Recommended. Hell, if you wanna be really depressed, Highly Recommended
Pics from around Bonaire:
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| The rear view of the Marriott Courtyard |
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| Yayoi Kusama is having yet another moment, lots of press on her new shows. Here is one of her pieces in SFO |
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Thanks for trip blog. Stay well
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