2016 USA Trip Saturday 11th June

We left Auckland just a little late on June 11th. 12 hours of sitting torture with swollen ankles at the end. But I did survive the flight with a little help from my sleeping tablet.  Which made a nice change from my usual nervousness (fear of flying) keeping me awake.  Thank you Mr Chemist in Taupo.  San Francisco was warm. We were conscious of the fact that we were a little late and that Tom and Janet would have arrived fromWisconsin before us instead of the planned "just after" so we hurried to the rental car depot via the blue train (a bit of a mission getting up to it with luggage via the elevators.) San Fran Airport does need to work on this - people arriving with heavy suitcases need easy access to the train.  There were long waiting lines at the lifts.

However, once onboard the train, everything went well and with my phone I was able to track down Tom and Janet.

It really was quite emotional to see them again.  Well, I was feeling emotional anyway after mum's funeral the day before.  So a bit of a cry and then all sorted and into the lovely big Kia.

Tom capably drove us down to Salinas where we checked into a hotel 

Ours was room 410.  After a quick freshen up, we went to a Thai restaurant for a meal before settling down for the night.  Here are some of our meals.  First rate Thai and then some nice icecream for free!

  

Day One down.