• The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    London Bound

    We leave in 2 hours. Yeah, we like to hang around OHare and not run late. The TSA guy was way too cheerful; what’s in his coffee? We’re on standby for business class and it’s nice that AA’s gate monitor actually shows our request. I got a courtesy Space-A upgrade put in the record by the sales rep, and it looked good last time I checked. Nothing certain until our asses hit leather AND we’re in the air, but surely 11 years of booking biz class on AA for my corporate clients increases my juju. I’ve been fighting a cold…