August is a great time to leave New York City for a home swap in a cooler climate.
We were up at 5am putting the final touches on our home to ready it for the Montreal swappers. We used their home last month and now it is their turn to use our place.
At 7am we headed to the airport to catch our plane to San Francisco. We have two 1-week exchanges set up. We start with our half of a non-simultaneous swap in Napa, California. A week from now we move on to Vancouver, Canada for a simultaneous exchange.
We usually fly west on Jet Blue because all of their seats are comfortable and their personal in-flight entertainment system can't be beat.
This time we decided to try a new carrier, Virgin America. Their coach section is similar to Jet Blue but they also have a first class option, which Jet Blue does not.
Personally, I have always felt that the passenger with the cheapest seat lands at exactly the same time as the person who pays extra for first class, but my father is 85 and is much more comfortable flying in a larger, less crowded seating area.
The VA first class seats recline to about 160 degrees. There is a leg support so you can stretch out and sleep. They served first class passengers a piece of quiche and later a chicken wrap. Coach fliers could order food they had to pay for separately.
Overall I prefer Jet Blue, however I was seated in coach class. Things probably look quite different from the first row.
The children were rather good, lulled into silence by six straight hours of the cartoon network.
Our kids do not watch television at home, and they did their best impression of drug addicts, crankily asking for another fix each time the satellite reception cut out.
When the plane landed it was time to implement a hastily put together plan necessitated by the exchangers' request that we change one of the home exchange contract terms we had previously agreed upon....
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