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<p>After three years of waiting to come back to SF (I was due to come at the beginning of the pandemic) I eventually arrived. As I've done previously I drove down the day before and stayed overnight in a hotel close to the airport.</p>
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<p>The Radisson Blu is a maze of corridors which seem to go on for ever. Needless to say I was at the very end of this corridor and as about as far away from reception as I could get.</p>
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<p>I had a salmon dinner in the bar before retiring for the night.</p>
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<p>Not an early start in the morning and I had plenty of time to catch the hotel shuttle bus before my flight at midday.</p>
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<p>After a ten hour flight I landed without incident. I did lose the will to live after about 7 hours but until someone invents a transporter as in Star Trek then it has to be done.</p>
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<p>I breezed through US customs after a friendly chat with the officer at the desk and had picked up my luggage withing 15 minutes of getting off the plane.</p>
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<p>Clive was at the airport to pick me up as planned despite there being issues with my mobile phone texting and Plusnet trying to charge me £33 for using 41 Mbytes of data within 5 minutes of touchdown despite my £5 cap on spend.</p>
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