Greywings are getting ready for the trip but there's still a bit to go

Greywings are getting ready for the trip but there's still a bit to go

Greywings being naturally, me and my partner, Hanski, both retired and living the best years of our lives,  he feeding dragons and me feeding dreams. Life is good, though, at the village of Marma, in the municipality of Älvkarleby, northern Upplands Province on the the Dala River.

It's almost time, now. This trip begins tomorrow, at 3:30 in Marma, as we will be heading for Arlanda, carpark at parking house number 22, pre-paid for three weeks. The flight goes at 7:10 a.m to Heathrow and then to Newark and we should be getting to Miami around 9 p.m; we'll sleep at the airport hotel and will continue our trip next morning to Bogotá and Cali, getting to Cali around 15:00 pm. with the pickup booked with the hotel people.
Right now I'm doing the last-minute packing and planning: I've got most of my stuff together and Hanski's stuff as well: gifts take up a lot of space in the suitcases, but that's ok, we'll need extra room on the way back for items purchased in Florida.

Still at Arlanda International Airport, waiting for our flight to Heathrow to take off.. In hindsight, we should have been a little less anxious and tried to figure out that parking house entrance better, instead of parking our car in P41 and not P22 as we had booked and paid for. The hassle at getting out of there when we got home almost cost us almost 8000 crowns extra, only by the courtesy of Swedavia Parking people and Hasse Schmidt and the ladies working there we were spared .L

It was nice to find out that not everything had gotten worse  since the golden age of airplane traveling when the stewardesses presented nice menus with free drinks and a smile to even economy class passengers and were not pushing merchandise to you when you tried to take a nap in when crossing the Atlantic. Even if wi fi is NOT free it's available and you can also charge your cell phone during the flight. Also, you don't need to confirm and reconfirm your tickets any longer: now everything is done via e-mail and your travel agent or your airline feeds you with continuous information about your flight.

I got a message to my cell phone as we were pulling out from the driveway in Marma, at 3 A.M, getting on the way to the airport:. It said " Now is a good time to start your trip. You have 1 hour and 7 minutes to Arlanda Airport and your flight leaves at 7:10 am." #They" knew where I was, how long it takes to drive to the airport, how much earlier we're supposed to be there prior to our flight...."