9 Hours In The Travel Cave
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I booked my flight. I knew I had to fly into Geneva and fly out of London. But finding something affordable was the kicker. So I booked with SAS and oddly agreed to a 3-way flight in and a 9-hour layover out - through Stockholm between Heathrow and LAX. And it wasn’t any normal layover. My flight would land at 12:15 am and my connecting flight would depart at 945 am. Call me nuts. As an experienced traveler, I should have known better. But I digress... I would be on the road for 24 days in July but as the days went on I realized that that 9-hour layover was hanging over my head like a fat cloud. Let’s call it a premonition. I tried to change my flight but SAS offered zero direct flights from London to LA. Who doesn’t offer that? I considered contacting a couple of people I knew but realized pretty quickly that only one of them would be up for the task of entertaining me at those ungodly hours. But he was busy. He looked for things for me to do