Arrived in Honolulu with no problems

I breezed through security at the San Francisco airport without TSA opening any of my bags.  I thought for sure they would question the SPOT tags when they saw them in their scanner.   Doug's flight from Boston was late so Francesco and I wondered if he was going to make the flight.  As a VERY frequent flyer (having just returned from Africa), Doug was bumped up to First Class on both flights.  This allowed him to be first off the plane when it landed at SFO and then pass by us in line to board the Hawaii flight since we were in Group 5, the very last group to board.

Everyone's bags arrives safely, and we were met at the airport by a librarian colleague of mine, Dave Coleman.  What is amazing is we were able to fit all our bags into his Prius.  There were four of us in the car along our gear for the month.   Check out Doug's bin in the photo below.  My shoe is in the photo for perspective.  Fortunately, I had prior experience packing a Prius.  The fact the back seats fold down separately and not evenly is a great design feature.  You can lower the seat on the left while still having the middle and right seat available for passengers.

After dropping our bags at our hotel, we went out to a late lunch or an early dinner depending on whether you are on Hawaii time or California time.

We have an early start tomorrow.  A cab picks us up at 6:15 am which should give us plenty of time to get to the airport by 7:15 am.  We then have our bags weighed before doing a bit of waiting before we take off on our two and a half hour flight to Palmyra.

Since we catch our cab before most restaurants are open for breakfast, I am off to buy some food to eat in our room tomorrow morning before we depart.  I am not expecting any food at the regional airport, and no food is served on board the plane.  We should arrive at Palmyra in time for lunch.