Category Archives: En Route

Yoga at Chicago’s Midway Airport!?!?

Are you wondering what there’s to do at Chicago’s Midway Airport while you wait? Would you believe that Chicago Midway Airport has a yoga room? We passed through TSA and saw a “Yoga Room” sign. 

 
It’s at Concourse C, Gate C1, the room is complete with soothing music, mats, hand sanitizer, a screen with calming images, a bench, and a mirror wall to check your form. What a great place to decompress and maybe do a bit of savasana before your flight.      

    
 

Checking Chicago Weather

I might be a bit obsessive about this, but ever since we were 15 days out, I’ve been checking weather twice daily for our departure weather. We leave for LA 1 1/2 days prior to our New Zealand Air flight from LA to Auckland, figuring that in the event of any delays we’ll still make our flight.
I’m happy to report that Friday the 29th is showing part sun and no chance of precipitation..

Uh oh, 40% chance of snow the day before. That was not in this morning’s report ❄️😳 I’ll see what tomorrow brings.

Pre-trip planning

New Year’s day, and we’re figuring out where to stay in Melbourne, Australia and what to do while there. Options that we have in mind, in addition to exploring the city, are a day trip to Lilydale to pedal the Warburton Trail, and  2 nights to Wilsons Promontory Point and on the return to Melbourne a visit to Philip Island to see the penguins at dusk.

Then we thought we’d return to Melbourne, return our rental car and hop a plane to Sydney.