Travel- Longview Washington to Kauai
Well I have finally had it with our weather here in good old Longview Washington. It was time for some sunshine and nice warm breezes! My fiance and I decided a week in Hawaii was in store to warm up the old bones and to get a new outlook on life. Winter had seemed to be never ending this year. Traveling to a exotic hidaway seemed to be the answer so we decided to trade Longview Washington for Kauai Hawaii.
We decided it was best to be dropped off at a hotel close to the Portland airport as we had a 6:30 am flight to San Francisco. My fiance’s son Joey dropped us off at the Fairfied Inn on Airport Way. We checked in and did our best to call it a early night.
Let me start with I made a huge mistake in Packing. I decided to pack light as I did not want to run the chance of loosing my luggage in route. So I packed all my clothes and toiletries in one bag, that was fine I think until the laptop went in! It ended up being around 55 lbs, mabee even 60 lbs! I have a old industrial HP laptop that has proved its self indestructable so I have never replaced it with a shiny newer version. I figured hell I don’t really care how heavy it was as it was going to on the airplane anyway. Did I mention this was going to be my carry-on? Starting to get the picture?
As it turns out upon arriving at the airport, the lines were really long. If we did not have to check in some luggage we could have gone through the electronic check in and got out seat assignments. This line was really long. So I figured I could leave Vicki in line and I could take the luggage that was to be checked in out to the sidewalk and go through the express line and we would be done. Wrong! I went through the express line and they gave me a boarding pass. Not until we were almost through security did we realize she did not have a boarding pass as I was the only one to to through the express line. As our boarding time was approaching soon we got concerned. We brought this issue to the attention of a security officer and she was kind enough to walk us to the front of the line back where we should of gone in the first place. Keep in mind I am dragging around a 60 lb bag all this time! We got on the plane finally with time to spare and was on our way to San Francisco, finally leaving the winter weather of Longview-Kelso behind.
Upon arriving in San Francisco we found out our connecting flight was, it seemed to be at the other side of the airport if not on the other side of San Francisco! Everything went fine from this point forward. Moral of the story to this point, check in your heavy baggage! My arms and shoulders were so sore from the strap hanging on them, my arms felt like I just worked out all day, and I did.
Upon arriving in Kauai it was like night and day from our good old Longview-Kelso area we call home. It was a nice 85 degrees with a nice trade wind blowing. Heaven. We checked into the Kauai Sheraton Resort in Poipu. I highly recommend this resort as I have stayed here once before. Check in was painless. I used a Travel Agent that I have been using for years and it really pays off. When you use a travel agency to book your itinirary, airfare and accommidations, I find things go a lot more smoothly. I have used the “cheap flight dot com” route before and will never go back. Everything usually gets screwed up.
After checking in we decided to go get somthing to eat so down to the on premises restaurant we went. I had a Kalua Pork sandwich and Vicki had a awesome Chicken BLT. Isn’t it funny how when you go out to eat with someone, what they order always looks better than what you got? It was. When we were done eating we went back to our room, keep in mind it was around 3:30 Hawaii time. I thought it sounded good to just lay down for a while to relax, 12 hours later I woke up. Yea 3:30 in the morning and ready to go. Oh, did I mention the Pina Colada? More to come as we have a week to go. www.longviewbiz.com
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