We traveled to Amsterdam to start our spring trip. The trip today was the smoothest ever. This time we routed ourselves Portland to New York to Amsterdam. The flight from Portland was early and we arrived earlier than usual due to all of the TSA troubles from the government shutdown. There was no line at all so we were thru in record time. Both of the flights arrived very early so our tight connection in New York become a comfortable connection. Our flight to Amsterdam arrived 45 minutes early and we were one of the first international flights of the day so there was no line at immigration and we were thru in under 10 minutes. If all travel days could be so smooth…
We had contacted our storage place to see what time we could arrive. They told us to come as early as we like. They said they would leave the keys in a place that is easy to find but pretty secure. Our Uber driver was a nice guy from Morocco.
The upshot was we arrived at François at 6:15 am. The only glitch was the earliest we could check into the campground was noon. We spent the next three hours unpacking our bags and the plastic boxes we store our left over food in to deter mouse invasions. When I say we the distribution of work is about 90% Ton and 10% Ron.
About 9:15 Ton declared close enough. We decided to take a nap until 10:30 and then head over to Lidl for our first shopping of this trip. We arrived at the campground at high noon and joined a line of 5 German vans. But the check in went quickly and we were parked up 15 minutes after arrival.
Today was as easy as it gets when transiting two countries.