We left Phoenix this morning at 7:00am, after an Uber ride to the airport (which I can recommend, by the way).
Almost 4 hours to Toronto, then another 3 to St Johns on West Jet airline.
West Jet is Air Canada’s budget airline. We upgraded to “Plus” service, which gives you a little more legroom, early boarding, free meals (cold sandwiches) and free checked luggage. Costs about the same as coach on a “real” airline, but was more comfortable.
St. John’s is colder than it has been the past couple of weeks that I have been watching it; 46 Fahrenheit this evening.
For some strange reason, Newfoundland sets their clocks on a half-hour rather than the even hours that most countries in the world use. It’s 1.5 hours later than EDT, so that’s 4.5 hours later than Tempe. Free breakfast at the Comfort Inn is served only until 9:00am, which is 4:30am Tempe time. We might not make it down for breakfast tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow we are going to explore the town. There is a hop-on/hop-off trolley through town that passes most of the interesting tourist stops, so we’ll do that. Friday we pick up our RV.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Dale // Sep 2, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Sounds like fun. That is so weird that they put that half hour in there. Must be a good reason. Hope you packed some warm coats.
2 Daryl // Sep 3, 2015 at 5:29 am
Couldn’t sleep, so we ended up getting up for breakfast after all. Hopefully this means we are adjusting to the time, but I bet it will hit us this afternoon.
3 Donna // Sep 3, 2015 at 10:19 am
The hop-on hop-off public transportation is such a great way to see tourist sites. We used that in NYC. We will expect reports on all the fun stuff you see there.
4 Daryl // Sep 6, 2015 at 5:44 am
Waiting for a good WiFi connection to post a new blog.
Hop on/off was OK, but since it only came once an hour we didn’t have many stops and had to watch the clock. The most interesting was probably Signal Hill where Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Ireland. Kind of cheating to go from an island to an island, though…
5 Dale // Sep 6, 2015 at 5:21 pm
If I waited for WiFi to post to my blog you would never hear from me. Sucks it up and post!
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