From Saskatoon

From Saskatoon

YXE-MSP-ATL-JAX

Sunday, June 7, 2015

I arrived at Saskatoon International airport around 3:15 AM using a taxi cab. Since it was so early there was no one at the Delta counter. Then around 4 AM people came and I checked my luggage and got the boarding pass. The Starbucks opened around 4:00 AM too and got coffee and waited at the gate.

We boarded the plane on time around 5:50 AM but never took off for another hour or so as the pilot needed to get some clearance from the ground and main office due to some problem with a light. Finally we arrived at Minneapolis-St Paul almost one hour late. The Delta people requested that those who had connecting flight to leave early.

At MSP, I had to go through both immigration and customs. Fortunately, the Automated Passport Control (APS) and the airport helped me finish the process quickly. Then I had to wait for the luggage to arrive and cleared through customs and rechecked the bag. Fortunately, again the my gate was literally next to the plane from Canada. I then arrived at ATL around 1 PM.

My final flight to Jacksonville was at 3 PM and that arrived at JAX by 4 PM. I was surprised to see my luggage make it all the way from Minneapolis especially when it took a long time before everyone had collected their luggage.

I paid for the parking fee and headed home and arrived by 8 PM.

Travel to Oslo

Travel to Oslo

Sunday, Aug 3, 2014

JAX to OSL

On Sunday, Aug 3 morning we left Jacksonville International Airport and flew to Newark Liberty International Airport to Terminal A. We had a lay over of several hours at EWR and therefore we had some snacks and ate early dinner at the airport.

We found a Travelex currency exchange office right at the airport. After speaking with the agents we were able to get exchange some American Dollars to both Norwegian Kroner (NOK or NKr) and Swedish Kronors (SEK or SKr). The advantage with them was if he had excess krone or kronor we could exchange back to USD without fees.

Then at 8 PM boarded the United flight to Oslo, Norway. The flight was about 7 hours long and we ate some dinner and early morning snack before we landed in Oslo, Norway in Oslo Gardermoen International Airport. It was bit cloudy and we went through immigration and customs and picked up our luggage.

We then bought tickets form the Flytoget train office to get to Oslo S (Oslo Central Station). We boarded the train and arrived at Oslo S after about 30 minutes. Just about that time it started to rain.

Travel Back home

MAA FRA IAD

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

I traveled back home on early Wednesday morning from Chennai (MAA) taking the LH 759 flight to Frankfurt, Germany. I arrived early in the airport around 10:30 PM and the LH people were asking me whether I could stay one more day but I politely rejected the offer as I needed to get back home in time. The flight left around 1:45 AM and arrived at Frankfurt same day 8:20 AM with about an hour to spare between my next flight to Washington DC. In the flight I had aisle seat and food was barely okay; they have definitely reduced the amount of the food.

I ran through the airport security and finally arriving at another part of the terminal Z to catch my flight to IAD. The flight IAD was bit shorter 8 hours rather than the 9 hours 45 minutes flight to FRA. There were two meals and once again it was barely good. I did manage to sleep little bit on the second flight and I arrived around 12:10 PM at IAD to a cooler weather. I went through the immigration and customs.

My next flight to JAX was several hours away and I took the giant bus to the local terminal and laid down in the terminal. The flight to JAX was delayed for another 30 minutes since the personnel (both pilots and bursars were reassigned to our flights late. When I arrived at JAX it was almost 7 PM.

Travel Back home

Back to the US

Saturday, Dec 8 and Sunday Dec 9, 2012

Chennai - Dubai - New York - Jacksonville -Tallahassee

We left late in the afternoon around 5:30 PM from Chengalpattu in Thiyagu's SUV with another car carrying the luggage and my siblings families. We arrived at the Chennai International Airport Departure area around 7:00 PM and Bhanu had just arrived.

We said goodbye to our folks and checked into our Chennai Dubai flight EK547. The flight was delayed by 30 minutes and flew over the Arabian Sea. However, as it approached Dubai we were further delayed due to the unavailability of landing place ended by landing an hour late outside the gates and needed to use a bus to get to the Terminal 3.

We barely made it to our next flight to New York JFK and hoped our luggage would make. The flight EK203 a Boeing 777-300ER was also delayed fortunately since many people were still boarding past the scheduled departure time. We hoped this would be good flight since the duration was 14 1/2 hours long. It was okay due to good entertainment system called ICE.

We arrived an hour late in New York and went through the immigration and customs clearance and rechecked our bags to Jacksonville and waited for another delayed flight to JAX. Finally we left at 4 PM and arrived in JAX by 6 PM via jetBlue.

We picked our car and drove home stopping at a Taco Bell for dinner. By the time we arrived home it was almost 9:45 PM.

Travel to Chennai via Dubai

Travel to Chennai via Dubai

Wed, Nov 28 - Fri, Nov 30, 2012

JAX-JFK-DBX-MAA

jetBlue connection to Emirates

 

We traveled to Chennai from Jacksonville, FL (via jetBlue) through New York JFK international airport (via Emirates) and through Dubai international airport.

JFK-Dubai 12:30 hrs non-stop flight (EK 202)

We left around 6 PM at JAX and arrived at JFK around 9 PM. Then at JFK we left around 11 PM and arrived the next night 9 PM at DBX. This flight was Airbus 380 with almost 500 passenger capacity. It was big and nice entertainment program. Our 12 1/2 flight was okay.

Then from DBX we left around 3 AM and arrived at Chennai by 8 AM on Friday Nov 30, 2012.

Travel to Jacksonville

Travel to Jacksonville, FL

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Today late evening we left for Jacksonville, Florida on our way to New York City. We decided to drive to Jacksonville, FL and fly from there to New York LaGuardia airport using Delta instead of leaving from our hometown since the tickets were 1/3 cheaper. Even after considering the gasoline, hotel stay, parking and food to and fro the flight from JAX to LGA made sense both economically and avoided multiple transfers.

We stayed at the Jacksonville Plaza Hotel & Suites on Duval Road in Jacksonville. The hotel was very good and had very good room. It was only 3 miles from the JAX airport.

Lost Canon Camera Mac Book and Acer Aspire at airport

Lost Canon Camera, Mac Book, and Acer Aspire Windows laptop at airport

Jacksonville International Airport Economy Parking Lot 1

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 8-9 PM

After traveling for 6 days and having a good time we lost our Canon camera, MacBook laptop, and Acer Aspire Windows laptop on Saturday, March 24, 2012 between 8 and 8:30 PM at the Economy Parking Lot 1 of the Jacksonville International Airport (JAX). We forgot to load it into our car and drove off home. We realized after 3 hours (after reaching) in Tallahassee.

The details of our lost items are:

Canon SD1300IS Powershot Camera

Canon SD1300IS Powershot Camera
Light Blue in Color

Model Number: D ELPH SD1300IS(BL)

Box Number: 4218B001 (AA)

Body Number: 1220 641 39 747

MacBook  2.4 GHz

MacBook  2.4 GHz
2x1 GB Memory

250 GB Harddisk 

Model A1342
Serial Number W8029ARWF5W
White in Color
Part Number MC516LL/A
Airport ID: 60 33 4B 18 28 7C (60:33:4b:18:28:7c)
Ethernet ID: E8 06 88 FB 7F B8  or (e8:06:88:fb;7f:b8)

Acer Aspire 1.3GHz 1410-2497 

Acer Aspire 1.3GHz 1410-2497 

Windows computer 

Blue in color

Ethernet ID: 00 26 9E B8 77 AE or (00:26:9e:b8:77:ae)

So if you come across these serial numbers, please let me know. Thanks.

Trip to Jacksonville Hindu Temple

Trip to Jacksonville, Florida
Hindu Temple of North East Florida
Sunday, December 28, 2008

We visited the Jacksonville Hindu Society of North East Florida and the Ganesh temple today. We started around 8:00 AM from home and took Interstate 10 East and drove for about two hours and 45 minutes. The temple is now located in a new subdivision Greenland Road (4968, Greenland Road, Jacksonville, FL 32258 (904-268-7630) www.jaxhindutemple.org (compared to the time when we visited the temple in 2004).

The temple construction work was still in progress with volunteers painting the driveway. We went inside and participated in poojas for Ram and Ganesh. We finished our meal in the temple and volunteered to set-up chairs for the upcoming New Year Services on Thursday, January 1, 2009.


We then drove to Rajan Indian Grocery store in Baymeadow Road and purchased some grocery items before heading toward Beach Boulevard and reached the Jacksonville Beaches. The water was cold and there were signs stating that there were rip currents and hence swimming was not encouraged.

The kids waded the water in knee deep water for about 45 minutes. Then we picked some coffee and donunts at the Dunkin Donut shop and headed toward home. We were home just before 8 PM.