40 hours of travel
If you have 40 hours of travel ahead of you, why not top it off with starting your day at 3:00am? That’s when my alarm went off on Tuesday, March 26. Mom, Dad, and I got to the Minneapolis airport at 5:00am and checked in for our trip to NEW ZEALAND! New Zealand isn’t a destination one just goes to, usually it’s years in the making. But when my younger brother, Charlie, was accepted to study abroad there last fall, we got to planning. Cable car ride! Our flight itinerary included a nearly 11 hour layover in San Francisco, so we treated it as an extra “mini” trip. Luckily, Charlie had a similar layover a month before, so he gave me a heads up about BART (Bay Area Rail Transport) which allowed us to get out of the airport and downtown San Francisco in no time. After coming up out of the BART station, we got in line for the historic cable cars. The line was long and the cable cars were slow to let people load (even though several were lined up ready to go), but we eventually