Going to San Francisco

To avoid a huge jet lag when arriving in San Francisco I decided to start this year’s trip to the United States with going out in Rotterdam with some friends. I had to go to Rotterdam anyway to hand in my master thesis at the Erasmus University. I managed to do so although delayed flights and improperly running trains made it very exciting to get there on time. Now I am only one step away from my graduation. That is the defense of my work, which will take place on November 20th at the Erasmus University, and everybody out there is heartily invited!

Being now almost university and study free I did some socializing with friends in Rotterdam, just until 3:15 at night which was the best time to go then directly to Schiphol airport to catch the flight via Frankfurt to San Francisco. In good tradition fights from Amsterdam to Germany are delayed and we started almost an hour late, which left me only 15 minutes to catch my connecting flight to San Francisco – enough for a well trained runner but as I should realize later not for my luggage, which arrived in the end six hours later than me. The flight with the Boeing 747 of Lufthansa was okay, I reserved my favorite seat in row 54 and did nothing else than sleeping or eating. At noon I arrived in San Francisco.