May 31 & June 1, 2017 Phoenix to London & Reading

Flight left on time and all was well until 1 hour after eating the in-flight meal of chicken curry.  I really hate being sick and the thought of throwing up in an airplane with over 300 passengers made the situation even worse.  Thankfully Betsy had some Tums which seemed to do the trick.  Flight was about 9 hours which was long, but the 747 is big enough that you could stand up and stretch and actually walk a bit.  We didn't really sleep.  It was more of a doze.
A young woman sat next to me and she was a member of the Great Britain Para-Olympic Swim Team.  She and eight of her teammates had been high altitude training in Flagstaff for the past 3 weeks.  They had been to the S Rim of the Grand Canyon and loved it.

We landed and expected to be through Border Control and luggage retrieval in about 45 minutes.  Much to our surprise there were hundreds of people lined up and of course very few processors.  Took about an hour and fifteen minutes to get through that mess.  To add to the stress I had hired a driver to get us from Heathrow to Reading and told them we'd meet him one hour after arrival.  Luckily he waited and didn't charge us for the extra time.

Arrived Reading, checked into the hotel and Betsy took a brief nap.  We then walked around town and found the Town Hall Museum, a statue of Queen Victoria, a park where some sort of mini food festival was going on, an old graveyard, and a pedestrian shopping street.  Since our stomachs had not recovered from the chicken curry we elected to eat chicken noodle soup at a Chinese eatery.  We headed back to the hotel and Betsy went to bed immediately.  I tried to read a little but kept waking up when the book would fall on my chest.  Gave up and went to bed at 8:30.