France - Brittany and Normandy - My Journal of a Plague Year
This isn't a year; it's from September 14 through October 12, 2021 during the COVID-19 shutdown. We cancelled this trip in 2020 and decided to try it in 2021. Fortunately, our dates landed between waves of the virus.
14.09.2021 - 15.09.2021
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September 14, 2021 - Tuesday (Election Day in California; we voted early)
The Covid Year. We thought the pandemic would be over by now. We had to cancel this trip last year so rebooked for this year. The pandemic probably would have been over except for the nasty people who refused to get vaccinated or wear masks. It’s still spreading and very political. Glad to escape politics for a while!
We left the house around 6:30 this morning and Jean drove us to the San Francisco BART station in Walnut Creek. Traffic was bad but not nearly as bad as we thought it would be
We waited about ten minutes for the BART train and they now have clean new cars and well-marked stations. It was very nice. An hour later, we arrived at a very quiet San Francisco Airport. Hiked down to Air France and were ushered immediately to a boarding agent who cheerfully checked us in. I printed our boarding passes at home so she wrote our gate (A13) on them and sent us off to Security. No line! We were cheerfully put through security with shoes on and no pat down. Wow!
Above our gate is a familiar restaurant so we stopped for a sandwich to split and I texted Peg to let her know we arrived, then changed to our French SIM cards. I sent Jean a text and we took the elevator down to our empty waiting area. About ten people here!
We wait . . . a long time. Flight isn’t until 3:15.
Later:
Boarded with no problems and sat for 10+ hours landing in Paris in the rain.
Leaving San Francisco International Airport

Leaving San Francisco International Airport

Driving past Paris toward Bayeux
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