Arrival in Tucson

Hey everyone,

Well, were here, we made it! Tucson is now officially our home for the next 10 months! Whoo!
The journey was not without its little interesting moments though.

Getting to Dublin was easy enough but the challenge of finding our B&B near the airport was a typical student kerfaffle. We got a tram which would take us to Malahide (a town about a mile from the accommodation) but half way there we had to change to a bus transfer as the line was closed. Getting out of the station was hard enough let alone lug all or stuff on and off the bus. (We rode up and down a lift a few times at Connelly Station just for the fun of it! hmm!!) We were exactly travelling light either! Still, we got there in the end. Had a quality meal in Dublin though having walked about 1 1/2 mile to the nearest pub dodging the ridiculous number of slugs on the footpath (no joke!). There was still much more to come!!!

We arrived at the airport 3 hours ahead of departure as advised but then the Dublin-Chicago flight was delayed causing us to miss our flight to Tucson but we just made the later one as standby passengers having waited for 5 hours in Chicago O'Hare which, by the way, is HUGE! I kid you not, its the size of reasonable town - Rugby for comparison!

The Tucson flight was in a smaller plane so much more scenic. Flying over Illinois and the Mississippi was awesome. Its just completely flat crisscrossed by prefectly square tracks separating 1/2 mile fields for as far as the eye can see. It then went dark so we flew over the rockies, Albuquerque and Phoenix. The city lights from the air was just awesome! I sat next to some American guy who clearly hadnt done a lot of flying before and was abit scared. He kept saying how awesome the view looked (of clouds!). Its was 21:30 local time when we arrived in Tucson. Thats 05:30 UK time (bear in mind we woke at 6am in Dublin!).

Anyway, thats s'all for now.
Take care
Paul