”Time is Money,” as the saying goes. Now that we are retired we have plenty of time, so we traded some to save money. We set out from home this morning shortly after 6 a.m., dragging our suitcases behind us as we walked to the bus stop. The express bus got us to downtown Minneapolis in timely fashion, and the Blue Line Metro was waiting for us to ride to the airport. It was very easy.
Delta Airlines got us to Boston a bit earlier than scheduled — a 100 mph tailwind helped, though it made the flight a little bumpy. Boston Logan is a very, very strange airport. We had to leave the security area of one terminal, walk a very long way (including through an open-air parking garage!) to get to the international terminal (no tram or other transport — good thing we are young and healthy and travel light), then go through security once again.
Then we waited more than 4 hours at Logan until the on-schedule departure of our TAP flight to Lisbon, Portugal. There we waited again for more than 4 hours for a flight to Stockholm. We bought senior citizen 72-hour mass transit passes here and rode a bus/train combo to the Central Terminal, then a subway to our hostel. Total travel time, a bit over 29 hours.
But we saved a lot of money!
And we still had energy to take a walk around the “new” city (buildings around here date from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s). Tomorrow we will use our transit passes to explore the “old” city.
Delta Airlines got us to Boston a bit earlier than scheduled — a 100 mph tailwind helped, though it made the flight a little bumpy. Boston Logan is a very, very strange airport. We had to leave the security area of one terminal, walk a very long way (including through an open-air parking garage!) to get to the international terminal (no tram or other transport — good thing we are young and healthy and travel light), then go through security once again.
Then we waited more than 4 hours at Logan until the on-schedule departure of our TAP flight to Lisbon, Portugal. There we waited again for more than 4 hours for a flight to Stockholm. We bought senior citizen 72-hour mass transit passes here and rode a bus/train combo to the Central Terminal, then a subway to our hostel. Total travel time, a bit over 29 hours.
But we saved a lot of money!
And we still had energy to take a walk around the “new” city (buildings around here date from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s). Tomorrow we will use our transit passes to explore the “old” city.
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