Wednesday 13th Feb
It’s 6.00 am and minus 3 degrees as we leave Alconbury. Starting a long journey is unreal. We’re perhaps just going to Tesco in Huntingdon. We’ve left in good time for the flight. This is fortunate as we get stuck in a mega M25 traffic jam less than 40 miles from Gatwick. 90 minutes worth of traffic jam. We arrived with just sufficient time to board. Does anyone manage to keep appointments when using the M25?
The theory of flight is well understood, but it’s still a miracle. 400 tonnes worth of Boeing 747 at over 500 mph, suspended on two slender wings. In the photo, the wing looks too flimsy to even support the engines (there’s another engine right, off camera).
From 36,000 feet there can be some wonderful views if it’s clear. Mostly it was cloudy or hazy, but here we are, directly over New York and in focus. The rainbow circle adds to the impression of a stolen glance into another world. Manhattan’s skyscrapers are just above the rainbow and look like a stand of trees. The Statue of Liberty is a matchstick on the smallest island, slightly below the centre of the picture
Now back to familiar territory for us- camping. Today is Saturday 16th, and Jane is sat outside our rv (American for motorhome) at KOA campground, Lake Whippoorwill. This is only a few miles from the rv depot and Orlando airport where we arrived. We’ll be here for two weeks, initially chilling out.
It’s exactly the same type of camper as for our last visit to the USA, so we soon settle into it again. Like the last motorhome, it is festooned on the outside with panoramic holiday-style prints. Maybe there’s a problem here, because the main print on the camper this time is of a very realistic road stretching into the distance. Parked side-on, in foggy weather, will we find a vehicle embedded in the bodywork, having taken the printed road?
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