East Coast Crawl

Home to STS to SFO to LAX
Left the house at 3:15AM. I was the only passenger for the Airport Express at STS. We picked up one at Days Inn, four more at Rohnert Park and a dozen or so at Petaluma. They do pretty well for that hour of the morning. We got to SFO by 5:30 and boarded pretty quickly. We took off a bit early and landed at LAX 18 minutes early. Virgin America planes are new and flash! Soft blue light greets you upon boarding. The seats are molded white plastic a la Star Wars with black leather and black detailing. A small tiltable video screen is attached to the back of the seat in front of you. It’s a myth that there is any more room on VA. I think the seat was a tad wider than the United seats I have been in most recently but they don’t tilt back more than 10-15 degrees and the video screen is never more that 12 inches from your face. I dozed off and banged my head on it several times. Even with the seat back I was leaning forward. The back cushion is pretty thick and with a long upper torso it thrusts you forward quite a bit. I will see if I can upgrade at all for the New York leg. I grabbed a sandwich, hash browns and soda at the Burger King. $9.09!!!!, that’s three times what you would pay anywhere else. We arrived at JFk almost a Half hour early but the bags took a long time. My sister Betsy and her hubby Gerry met me and we drove about 2 hours top Cheshire. The roads around JFK are as bad as our California Roads.