6,321 Miles to Rome. And Now We Wait.
May. 23rd, 2025 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerItaly Travelog #1
SFO Airport - Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:15pm
We've started our trip to Italy. We're approximately 0.5% of the way there! Yup, we're waiting in the United Club Lounge at SFO. And we've got a while to wait. It's just past noon now, and our flight doesn't depart until almost 5pm.
Why come so early? Well, we thought the lounge would be a decent place to relax, with a bit of free food and space to get some work done without worrying about whether there'd be rush hour traffic later in the day. Well, we definitely solved for the "avoid rush hour traffic" part of the equation, but the lounge isn't exactly relaxing. It's overcrowded. Like, people are hovering for chairs like people hovering for parking spaces at Costco on Saturday afternoon. And the food? What little there is gets picked apart almost as soon as a new dish is brought out.
Maybe the crowd in the lounge is a lunch time thing, with people packing in here hoping to skip the outrageously priced slop served in the fancy-looking restaurants out in the terminal. ...Speaking of which, Hawk and I spent $60 for lunch on a shitty knockoff of Panda Express. I threw my plate out slightly more than half eaten.
Not a great start to this trip. We'll see if it improves soon.
SFO Airport - Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:15pm
We've started our trip to Italy. We're approximately 0.5% of the way there! Yup, we're waiting in the United Club Lounge at SFO. And we've got a while to wait. It's just past noon now, and our flight doesn't depart until almost 5pm.
Why come so early? Well, we thought the lounge would be a decent place to relax, with a bit of free food and space to get some work done without worrying about whether there'd be rush hour traffic later in the day. Well, we definitely solved for the "avoid rush hour traffic" part of the equation, but the lounge isn't exactly relaxing. It's overcrowded. Like, people are hovering for chairs like people hovering for parking spaces at Costco on Saturday afternoon. And the food? What little there is gets picked apart almost as soon as a new dish is brought out.
Maybe the crowd in the lounge is a lunch time thing, with people packing in here hoping to skip the outrageously priced slop served in the fancy-looking restaurants out in the terminal. ...Speaking of which, Hawk and I spent $60 for lunch on a shitty knockoff of Panda Express. I threw my plate out slightly more than half eaten.
Not a great start to this trip. We'll see if it improves soon.
