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Headed Home -- Tuesday, Sept 12, 2023

The last morning, people started to go their different ways.  Once again, luggage was handled without needing us to participate other than to confirm our bags were loaded onto the bus (because we’re suspicious like that!). Travel to the airport on the noon shuttle to catch our 2ish flight, which was the start of a very long journey – Anchorage to Seattle to Detroit to Charlotte.  A total of 16 hours from start to home.

We hadn’t flown anything other than American in years, with Charlotte being a hub for them.  This trip, though, we learned that you can’t hardly get there from here so we were on Delta and were pleasantly surprised.  It felt like the staff was friendlier, the food was definitely better and overall things seemed to go more smoothly than on American.

Anchorage and Detroit (surprisingly!) had extremely nice airports – well lit, clean, and even at odd hours there were services available.  Landing in Charlotte, and for the first time in years coming into something other than the American terminals, we recognized that the construction is a mess and the “spiffing up” was much needed.  It’s chaos there now, but will be nice when it is finished if the renovated side is any indication.

All that’s left is to recover from the time change!


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