Thursday, August 25th 2011
At 8 h the team met at the US Airways Checkin. We all were in a good mood already early in the morning and laughed quite a lot and and made some joke. If you consinder that we had a 10 h flight to Philadelphia and an other 5 h with the connecting flight to Las Vegas in front uf us….
Without any problems we did the check-in and especially with our red teamoufit we were quite an eyecatcher at the airport. Starting from the passengers, to the security and the police at the passport controll, everybody asked us what we are doing and what kind of team we were. As they heard what our target was, they were quite estonished. And so we went on with best wishes, and good lucks till cross the fingers to board.
We were quite lucky that the flight to Philli wasn’t booked out, therefore quite everybody had more than one seat for himself. What was for the tall people like Stefan and Bernd quite a gift. After 9,5 hours we reached Philadelphia at 13.15 h, earlier that expected. And so we went through custome, showed I do not know how many times our passport, grabed our luggage and had to re-checkin, even though we did not left the building that we came in…This took us straight out 1,45 h. No wunder we were starving and we were looking for a place to eat. Well, that made our decision not easy, starting from pizza, to burger, chinese food and candyshop you name it. And after a while we had to leave again because on the destination board it sais „go to gate and ready for boarding“. Our US Airways Flight 467 left with an ½ delay – Las Vegas here we go!! In the meanwhile it is already midnight in Switzerland and we are pretty tired and still sitting in the plane. Yeah something I have to do after we land in Las Vegas, Peanuts as they say over here. Our american colleagues were not able to organize a tent/canopy for us, after we asked them in february!! Any question? For your information, beside our Camper our chief designer and constructor as well as the engine builder need to work on the racing bike and it would be nice to have some shade on the salt flats. So I will be soon on my way. Thanks to the „Home Depot“ Store, which is just around the Corner in Vegas from our hotel and it will be open until 22 pm. Okay folks, for today I say good by to all of you. Stay tuned and have a good day.
See you
Cristina Saegesser
