2010 Trip: Columbus to New York to San Francisco

28th-29th June 2010

The convention, having finished, left me exhausted and with a box of boardgames and other bits and bobs to cart home. I managed a few more hours of sleep than my usual 6 or 7 and headed off to the airport. I retraced my steps to the hostel - plane, bus, and 3 subways, well, actually 4 because I mucked up, with an extra box. Fun! I spent the late afternoon in town. Unfortunately it was a little to late to go visiting museums, so I wandered around the shops and grabbed some more Maoz falafel for dinner. After this I headed back to the hostel and tried (quite unsuccessfully) to get an early nights sleep. I was up at 3am, heading for JFK. I was organised and so realised a shuttle bus was scheduled for the current section of subway, I even knew where it stopped. I waited there for 15 minutes before exploring and discovering the subway was actually running. Weird. So, 2 subway trips later, I boarded the Air Train as the first light appeared on the horizon and sped towards Terminal 7. After doing all of the customary airport things, I grabbed some breakfast and watched the sun come up. The flight to San Francisco was 6hrs, crossing 3 time zones. There were some awesome views of the Rockies, farmland, and in some places huge swathes of pivot irrigators (though less than I would have expected). I caught the BART (Bay Area Regional Transport) from the airport into town. With box in hand, I climbed the hill to my hostel. San Francisco is not what one could call flat! I spent the rest of the day exploring the central city, but that is a story for the next post.