Truckin' along...

So, after 7 hours on a bus, 5 hours in Chicago, 1 hour on a train, 3 hours waiting, 8 hours by plane, 1 hour waiting, and finally 1 hour by bus, I'm just now waiting to board my flight to Egypt.

Those of you who have read the blog or travelled with me before will understand when I say this trip is off to a good start. To begin, it was pouring on Wednesday night when I went to catch the bus. People had warned me about the people on the megabus (they weren't that bad), but nobody warned me that the emergency latch would break on my window. Keep in mind that essentially all the walls on these buses are window. Every time we'd drive by a semi or anything else that created the slightest bit of a wind tunnel, my window wall would fly open... you know... for easy escape or something. This is when I knew for sure this would be a good trip. :) They couldn't fix it, so about halfway through (in order to keep the kid in front of me from falling from a second story window, I sortof figured out a way to keep it shut most of the time.

We arrived early in Chicago, but thank God for bakeries. I found one that opened its doors at 6, and sat down for a couple hours to wait for the sun to rise and plan a few last details. Then it was off for a nap in the sun at Millenium park before catching the L out to the airport.

The rest went pretty smoothly, until this morning when we landed pretty early in London. I did a little begging and the driver of my transfer bus was nice enough to let me on without paying to change my ticket, so I'm a happy camper. :) England, outside of downtown London, is beauuutiful. Rolling hills, mossy roofs on adorable brick buildings and streams all over the place. I may just have to consider coming back here sometime, but now - Off to Egypt!