Trip to the States - Day 1

11:00 Streatham, London
Got up and started packing. Made breakfast and a little bit of Winning before leaving home.

14:51 Streatham Hill
With the help of Journey planner on Transport for London website, worked out that the best route from Streatham to Heathrow should be:
Streatham Hill -> Clapham Junction -> Feltham by train, then Feltham -> Heathrow by bus.

Inside a Southern train to Clapham Junction

The suitcase is all wet because of the pissing rain. See you in a week time, rainy London.

Wandsworth Common in rain.

Feltham Station, an official connection point to Heathrow (apparently).

The bus indicator for Heathrow. You don't see that very often.


16:05 Heathrow Airport
Arrived at the airport surprisingly early. Was thinking to have a drink before boarding. Then had a dilemma between all those cafes at the waiting lounge. Well, as I'm heading to the US, I thought I shouldn't go to Starbucks. So went for Cafe Italia, had a Pain Au Chocolat and a Hot Chocolate. Then boarded the American Airline AA 155 to Boston.

From bus stop to terminal.

In front of this gate at Terminal 3, I had to see my bobo flying home and leaving me staying in London. This time I'm leaving and no one is crying.

The transcalator to Gate 22.


18:05 Take off
The flight is quite full. I was sitting at an aisle seat at the second last row of the flight. This is a shit seat because it's right next to the toilet, and the cabin crew (a bunch of women) were chatting behind all the way. Perhaps that's why I was sitting there, and no one was sitting next to me.

Snack Box. This came after the dinner. The dinner was a total nightmare - beef with hashbrown, coleslaw, chocolate cake, a cold lump of bread.

Contents in the snack box.


21:00 Outside Boston Logan Airport
Got asked a few question at the immigration desk, as expected. He even asked who I know in Boston, and where I knew him from.

Jay picked me up from the airport, and then caught a shuttle to the subway station - Airport. The subway system is surprisingly old and messy. A brief search says it was built in 1895!! Well, at least the oldest lines I suppose.

Outside the airport

Looking at the subway tracks from the bridge.

The subway train. Look at how "unattractive" it is.

The track, which you may notice it's almost level to the platform.



22:00 Dropped off luggage and headed for dinner
Went to drop my luggage at Jay's place before going to dinner at a Thai place. Ordered a fried flat noodle with pork, super spicy. And Jay told me that in here everyone who looks younger than 40 needs to show ID when buying alcohol. Luckily they accepted my UK driving licence.

Jay, his food and my beer.

Jay's studio.