Aug 3 - travels

Like clockwork until Sandy told me about heavy traffic on the 400, I was back at the cottage for dinner.  It was a long day, however, at 29 hours that extra time squeezed into one day does make a difference !

Heading out in the early a.m. from my hotel I found to my chagrin that the NAV was routing me south through Central London rather than north to the M25 ring road and then clockwise to LGW.  I had lots of time and had no way of easily plotting a different route at that point, so I simply went with it.  At 4am there was still a lot of traffic but noting stopped, thank goodness.  When I say Central London, I'm talking of "A" roads for the most part, not city streets.

Eventually I ended up on the ring road south of London, got to Gatwick, diverted to add fuel and was in the airport and checked in.  The central area of Gatwick is all shopping and a zoo, so I headed to my gate, or at least the number on my boarding pass under the gate designation that turned out to be a check-in sequence number ... argghh.  I didn't realize that until 45 minutes before flight time and then had to hoof it miles to my actual gate.  Sweating from the exertion, I boarded the aircraft.  Eventually I cooled down. 

The flight was uneventful; I got some sleep and I did some reading.  I worked on the LEL write-up as well, using my laptop.  In Toronto, there was no queue at Immigration and the bags came out right away.  Because I was an early check-in, my bag was not early on the carousel, but eventually came and the bike box was already there.  Heading outside, the shuttle to the Park-n-Fly was already there and I loaded up and was at my car in no time.

After talking to Sandy, I used highway 27 to head north rather than the 400.  I'm not sure that saved anything as miles of traffic headed north took a long time to get through traffic lights ... but I was at my destination at 6pm.  Not bad, but 4am to 11pm body-time is still a long day. 

Today -- fishing with David, Mass in Britt, whatever else.

Onward !