so here is the deal. If you ever wanted to know, the 4th of July is a very dead time at the airport. Of course a skilled traveler such as myself has a keen sense for picking the one flight that gets delayed. That would be fine since usually when we go international jenny and I have 2-3 hour layovers and these delays make the time go fast. Luckily on this flight I was able to score a follow up flight that only left 55 minutes after this one lands. …

Just ONE simple rule*, and yet, every day, you have to do battle with some moron who just doesn’t get it. First some background. London’s Tube stations are underground (I think that’s where they got the term, The Underground). Sometimes, these stations are really really deep – maybe 65 meters underground. So if you want to board them you have to take stairs or an escalator. Often, you will get off one Line, and have to switch to a different Line, and then go down deeper, or go up, etc… …