{"id":3546,"date":"2013-03-12T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2013-03-06T20:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:45:35","slug":"trip-report-the-comfy-run-san-francisco-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Trip Report – The Comfy Run: San Francisco to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/a>
\nSeattle to San Francisco<\/a>
\nAloft San Francisco Airport<\/a>
\nSan Francisco to Atlanta<\/a>
\nAtlanta to Newark<\/a>
\nFairfield Inn & Suites Newark<\/a>
\nNewark to Minneapolis<\/a>
\nMinneapolis to San Francisco<\/a>
\nSan Francisco to Seattle<\/a>
\nConclusion<\/p>\n

Apoligies in advance but this is going to be the most boring portion of this trip report. \u00a0By the time I made it through to Check in at T3 and found out that I couldn\u2019t get home any earlier. \u00a0I was just totally over it. \u00a0I was tired and wanting some sleep. \u00a0But that wasn\u2019t going to happen. \u00a0I had 5 hours to waste, so I figured I would clear TSA and head to the International Terminal to the United Club there, I had never been there before and figured it might as well be worth visiting.<\/p>\n

I cleared TSA (and at the same time, forgot that I had a bottle of water in my bag… absolute fail move) and then by the time I was finally through I had missed out on the Air China 747 pushing back. \u00a0I walked on over to the United Club, and wow… is it crap compared to a Delta Sky Club. \u00a0I have to admit… Delta wins the lounge competition that is for sure!<\/p>\n

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I settled in and caught up on the trip report and some other work, and then by the time that was finished I figured incase I fell asleep in the lounge, it would probably be smarter to at least be in the right terminal. \u00a0So I walked over to Terminal 3 and the united club there, and then promptly did the most boring thing ever. \u00a0I sat back and trolled the internet. \u00a0I wrote a couple of letters, I did some reading, I spent some cash ordering a new running watch. \u00a0O so thrilling.<\/p>\n

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What I was not to proud about doing was eating my weight in Chocolate Coated Pretzels. \u00a0Yes they are tasty, but it was a stupid move doing that. \u00a0Pretty sure I made myself sick eating them. \u00a0I got so tired and angry at myself that i decided to go and do a lap of the entire terminal, then go hang out by the gate and remote into work with the free wifi and test out the laptop connection ready for my next trip.<\/p>\n

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The gate area was ok, fairly empty and I just settled in with the rest of the crowds waiting for the flight to board as I did a bit of work.<\/p>\n

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United Airlines – UA971<\/strong>
\nSan Francisco to Seattle-Tacoma<\/strong>
\n1932-2141<\/strong>
\nAirbus A319 (N863UA)<\/strong>
\nEconomy Class – Seat 25A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boarding: 1855 (Gate 68)<\/strong>
\nPush Back: 1930<\/strong>
\nTake Off Roll: 1845 (Runway 1R)<\/strong>
\nTop of Descent: 2103<\/strong>
\nTouch Down: 2131 (Runway 34C)<\/strong>
\nShut Down: 2136 (Gate N16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The flight was called and the scrum began to get onboard as they were telling people if they were in Boarding Group 5, you have no chance of overhead bin space and to just gate check the bags right there and then. \u00a0I got onboard and asked if Channel 9 was going to be active. \u00a0This was the first time in like 10 United flights that I was on a legacy United aircraft so was looking forward to some Channel 9. \u00a0But sadly… nope! \u00a0I was rudely informed by the FA that they would NOT be having Channel 9 on, even if I asked nicely. \u00a0I tweeted my displeasure about said incident.<\/p>\n

The cabin was old school, but comfortable and it filled up pretty damn quickly. \u00a0Even though I was way down the back, by this stage I didn\u2019t care. \u00a0I was to busy trying to keep my eyes open. \u00a0I read my book as we pushed back and headed over to the dual 1\u2019s. \u00a0We lined up next to another aircraft and although I didn\u2019t have Channel 9 I was kind of pretending I could hear it with my brain thinking \u201cUnited 971 Cleared for Takeoff Runway 1 Right\u201d<\/p>\n

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We took off (without a companion on the dual runways) and climbed into the sky. \u00a0The flight was going to be all sorts of boring. \u00a0Reading, nodding off, and a drinks run in the next 1 hour and 45 or so minutes. \u00a0Yay! \u00a0The only highlight of the flight was getting the whole can during the drinks service! \u00a0I was impressed at least.<\/p>\n

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I managed to finish my book and also have a bit of a chat with my seat mate as we descended into Seattle (maybe a 3rd client for the trip) and we touched down in Seattle with a nice thump. \u00a0Not bad! \u00a0We taxiied quickly to the N terminal where I was not in a hurry to get off as being up the back, I knew it wouldn\u2019t be quick. \u00a0By the time I was off, it was onto the Train to the terminal, then the shuttle to the car park, then home to my apartment.<\/p>\n

22 hours after I woke up in Newark… I was putting head to pillow in Seattle. \u00a0Way to long of a day \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction Seattle to San Francisco Aloft San Francisco Airport San Francisco to Atlanta Atlanta to Newark Fairfield Inn & Suites Newark Newark to Minneapolis Minneapolis to San Francisco San Francisco to Seattle Conclusion Apoligies in advance but this is going to be the most boring portion of this trip report. \u00a0By the time I made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,5,8,9,1,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-spotting","category-books-movies-tv","category-expat","category-food-drink","category-life-in-general","category-travelling","category-tripreports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-Vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}