So here we are at Dulles airport, waiting for our flight to board. Our last day in the USA has been a bit confusing, but ultimately alright. For example, it cost me $12 to buy $6 of gas. Don’t ask….. We had a Taco Bell experience (interesting). We failed to visit Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home, but we did succeed in navigating our way from Short Pump near Richmond to Great Falls National Park on the Potomac, and from there to Dulles airport, all via the intricacies of the US Interstate system. The bits around the northbound I95/I495 junction were especially fun.
We’ve just enjoyed our last bit of Americana – a juicy, sloppy cheeseburger + fries in the terminal – and now we’re waiting to board our flight home. Then it will be 7 hours in the air, overnight, before landing at a no-doubt cold and possibly wet Manchester at around 7am. We’ll really enjoy that; it will cool our sunburn nicely.
(Update: in the event there were some problems with the flight home. We boarded the plane on time and then it turned out that it wouldn’t start! So we all de-planed back into the terminal. Eventually they found a different aircraft which worked, and we eventually took off at 9:45, so about 3 hours late. We got home just after 12 noon on Friday.)
That’s it from the trip. I’ll do the usual review in a few days.
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