Go West Old Folks

We left home around 3 am for our 5:45 flight to Oregon.  At that time of day there was no traffic and the drive to Yeager Airport was easy.  No problems at check in our security and our short 90 minute flight departed for Chicago on time.  It is a good thing, since we had very little time to change planes at O’Hare.  We arrived at Concourse F, but our departing flight for San Francisco was out of Concourse C and was starting to board when we deplaned.  There was a 15 minute wait for a shuttle from our arrival gate to our departure gate.  The attendant estimated a 15 minute walk would be required to get between gates.  We made it in four and a half minutes!  We were racing through the airport.  When we got to our gate the priority passengers had boarded as were zones 1 and 2.  We got there just as zone 3, our seats, were starting to board.  We felt very fortunate to have made this flight.

The flight from Chicago from San Francisco was a good one although was over four hours long.  The in-flight movie, Now You See Me, was worth watching and had Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Woody Harrelson featured.  We got to San Francisco around 10 am Pacific Time and found a Chinese place for lunch.  I had orange chicken, and Mary had broccoli and beef.  We split some fried rice.  The flight to Eugene was delayed for nearly an hour because the Eugene airport was fogged in and nothing was coming or going from there.  We departed before noon and arrived in Eugene around 1 pm.  The air conditioning on the small regional jet was not functioning well. The cabin got really warm prior to takeoff making several of the passengers unruly, but once in the air the air cooled and so did the malcontents.

Mary waited on our checked bag while I picked up the rental car.  We had reserved a compact car but got a free upgrade to a Hyundai Genesis which is a very nice car.  We drove the short distance from the airport to Whittingtons and talked with Robert for a good while and enjoyed relaxing.  Cedar enjoyed seeing us as well.  The weather here is much cooler than we expected with temperatures in the 40s during the day.  We sat in the sunshine on the front porch and enjoyed the day.  Michael got in from school and was driving the big truck. After Mark & Cindy got in we had a great dinner of tri-tip and salad followed by some ice cream and Cindy’s banana bread.  After dinner some of us watched Shrek while Mary & Cindy played cribbage.  We were tired from our travels and the time change so we turned at 9 pm.