Cars and Planes

Headed back to the airport at 10:20 to have some breakfast and pick up the car. All my paperwork seemed to be in order and I was told by Sandy that there was a deal on that  meant I could upgrade to the next size car for half the normal price, to which I agreed.   So that would be a mid size rather than compact. However once I got to the parking area there were no midsize cars available so the attendant gave me a full size; so I have a Dodge Charger for three weeks and it is bright red! http://www.dodge.com/en/2010/charger/  It is a bigger car than I expected but not huge like a Hummer so should be a comfortable ride down the west coast.
As I drove out of the airport I passed through the security gate where the officer was a bit bemused by my UK driver’s licence but was happy to reconcile the details with my passport and I was off onto the Highway.
The Museum of Flight, at the original Boeing Aircraft headquarters, is only a few miles away so headed there to try out the car and my Garmin GPS. Parked up near to a Grumman F14  Tomcat and went in ($15).  A good museum with plenty of exhibits from the history of flight. See http://www.museumofflight.org/ for details. Highlights include the only Concorde on the West Coast of America, the first 737 and 747 and the plane used by John F Kennedy as ‘Air Force One’.  The first and last of these can be walked through.

The weather had improved considerably now but by 4 P.M. I was starting to feel the jetlag kicking in so headed back to the hotel for 40 winks, which turned into more like 80 winks so just had an easy evening.

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