best. cross-country. flight. ever.

Greetings from North Carolina - where the temperature is 100+ degrees, but the humidity level is surprisingly low. Dick and I are here visiting his family in the beautiful Chapel Hill area.

We took a red-eye flight last night, which left SFO at 11:15. We had an hour lay-over in Chicago, then another flight from Chicago to Raleigh. Through the modern miracle known as Tylenol PM, we both managed to sleep almost the entire flight! Dick slept about 6 hours - from take off to landing on both flights. I read for less than an hour on the first flight, and slept the rest of the way.

When we arrived in RDU at 9:15am this morning, we both felt relatively rested, considering we had just flown all night.

We even had a great rental car experience! Dick is a preferred member with Avis - this means that the shuttle dropped us off directly at our car, and (even better) the key was in the ignition, with the engine started and the air conditioning on!

After we picked up our rental car (an enormous Chevrolet SUV!) our first stop was Bojangles for a biscuit and sweet tea. (when in Rome...)

We came to Dick's sister's house, took a quick nap, then met both of his sisters at Mama Dip's for lunch!

We're getting ready to go visit Dick's father at his new apartment now, then an evening with the entire family. Should be a lot of fun.

More later!